PAT Testing / Electrical Testing in Llanymynech

Llanymynech

Llanymynech is a village straddling the border in between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and also Shropshire, England, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The town is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal passes through it. The boundary runs for one of the most part along the frontages of the structures on the eastern (English) side of the village's major street, 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 simply in England, although the entire village hinges on the very same clerical parish. The border likewise passed right through the now closed Lion club, which had two bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh areas were referred to as "damp" or "dry" depending on whether people could drink in bars on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was lawful to consume alcohol on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. Two of the continuing to be open bars in the town are entirely in England as well as the third is totally 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 is in the civil church 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.