Presteigne is a town and neighborhood in Radnorshire, Powys, Wales. It was the county town of the historic region of Radnorshire. In spite of lying on a minor B road the town has, in common with numerous other communities near to the Wales-England border, thought the motto, "Gateway to Wales". The town rests on the south bank of the River Lugg, which forms the England-- Wales boundary as it passes the town-- the boundary successfully wraps around 3 sides of the community (north, east as well as south). Neighboring communities are Kington to the south as well as Knighton to the north, and surrounding towns include Norton as well as Stapleton. The community falls within the Diocese of Hereford. The town possibly began as a tiny negotiation around a Minster church devoted to St Andrew as well as at the time of the Domesday Book and also created part of the estate of Humet. By the mid-12th century it was called 'Presthemede' or 'the boundary field of the priests'. A century later, it passed into the control of the Mortimers, powerful Marcher lords, and also on their loss passed into the hands of the Crown. At the end of the 13th century, most of the town's occupants, mostly English, enjoyed some prosperity yet the Black Death and also the Glyndwr disobedience had actually destroyed this and also by the end of the 15th century, the currently largely Welsh, population resided in a having a hard time town. A significant victory in their disobedience was won by the forces of Owain Glyndwr close by at the Battle of Bryn Glas in 1402. The advancement of a flourishing cloth market in the Tudor period brought short-lived prosperity, finished by three brand-new epidemics of pester in three successive generations. Thereafter it became a market community and also, up until the later 16th century, a centre for processing in your area grown barley into malt. By the Acts of Union, Presteigne - in the beginning collectively with New Radnor - came to be the county town of Radnorshire as well as its administrative and also judicial centre, housing the area gaol as well as the Shire Hall. By the end of the 19th century its more recent as well as larger neighbor, Llandrindod Wells, had actually laid hold of the function of administrative centre, yet Presteigne stayed the venue for the Assizes till these were abolished in 1971. After a period of torpidity in the initial fifty percent of the 20th century, the community has developed a diverse manufacturing base and also has actually started to manipulate its tourism capacity while its atmosphere as well as the growth of its social, social as well as recreation facilities have actually assisted to bring in individuals to work out.