Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the boundary between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The town gets on the financial institutions of the river Vyrnwy, as well as the Montgomery Canal passes through it. The border runs for the most component along the frontages of the structures on the east (English) side of the village's primary street, with the eastern half of the town in England and also the western fifty percent in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies simply in England, although the entire town lies in the same clerical parish. The boundary likewise passed throughout the currently shut Lion bar, which had two bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were described as "wet" or "completely dry" relying on whether individuals could drink in pubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to consume alcohol on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion however not the Welsh bar. Two of the continuing to be open clubs in the town are entirely in England and the 3rd is entirely in Wales. Just to the north of the town is Pant. More north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the town remains in the civil parish of Llanymynech and Pant, and also in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.
