Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the boundary between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, concerning 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The town gets on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, as well as the Montgomery Canal goes through it. The boundary runs for one of the most component along the frontages of the buildings on the eastern (English) side of the town'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 exists simply in England, although the entire town hinges on the very same ecclesiastical church. The border additionally passed right through the currently shut Lion bar, which had 2 bars in Shropshire as well as one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were referred to as "damp" or "completely dry" depending upon whether people can drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was lawful to consume alcohol on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion however not the Welsh bar. 2 of the staying open pubs in the town are entirely in England as well as the 3rd is entirely in Wales. Just to the north of the village 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, as well as in the electoral ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.