Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the boundary between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, concerning 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh town 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 boundary competes the most component along the frontages of the structures on the eastern (English) side of the town's main road, with the eastern half of the town in England as well as the western fifty percent in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies just in England, although the entire town lies in the exact same clerical parish. The border likewise passed throughout the currently closed Lion bar, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and also one in Montgomeryshire. At once Welsh areas were described as "damp" or "dry" depending upon whether people might drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was completely dry it was lawful to consume on Sundays in both English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. Two of the staying open bars in the town are totally in England and also the 3rd is entirely in Wales. Simply to the north of the town is Pant. More north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the town is in the civil parish of Llanymynech as well as Pant, and also in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.