Llanfyllin
Llanfyllin is a small market community, area and selecting ward in a sparsely-populated location in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. Llanfyllin's population in 2011 was 1,532, of whom 34.1% can talk Welsh. Llanfyllin indicates church or parish (llan) of St Myllin ('m' regularly mutates to 'f' in Welsh). The town lies in the valley of the River Cain near the Berwyn Mountains in Montgomeryshire, 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Oswestry and 15 miles (24 km) from Montgomery. The River Cain is joined by the small River Abel in Llanfyllin (probably called after Cain and Abel in the Bible), as well as twists with the valley, moving into the River Vyrnwy at Llansantffraid. The community exists in between Shrewsbury as well as Bala, for a very long time the crucial market communities in this field of Wales and also the Welsh borders. At neighboring Bodyddon there is proof of a very early British settlement. Llanfyllin may be the "Mediolanum amongst the Ordovices" defined in Ptolemy's Location (c.? ad 150), although others argue for Meifod or Caersws. The town is understood for its holy well, Fynnon Coed y Llan. The well is devoted to Saint Myllin, who is considered to have actually baptised people below in the 6th century. The parish church is also committed to Saint Myllin. There is a practice that Saint Myllin is the Irish diocesan, Saint Mo Ling (additionally called Moling Luachra) (614-- 697). Nonetheless, this doubts. There is no record of Mo Ling taking a trip to Wales, and there is a tradition that Myllin is hidden under the altar of Llanfyllin church whereas Mo Ling is believed to have been hidden at his abbey in Ireland.
