Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a town straddling the border in between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, concerning 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village is on the financial institutions of the river Vyrnwy, and also the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The border runs for one of the most component along the frontages of the structures on the east (English) side of the village's major road, 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 hinges on the exact same ecclesiastical church. The border additionally passed throughout the currently shut Lion bar, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were described as "damp" or "completely dry" depending upon whether individuals can drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to drink on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. Two of the remaining open bars in the village are totally in England and the third is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Additional north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the village remains in the civil parish of Llanymynech as well as Pant, as well as in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.