Llanymynech
Llanymynech is a village straddling the boundary in between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village is on the banks of the river Vyrnwy, and the Montgomery Canal travels through it. The boundary competes one of the most component along the frontages of the buildings on the eastern (English) side of the town's major street, with the eastern fifty percent of the town in England and the western fifty percent in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha lies just in England, although the entire town depends on the very same ecclesiastical parish. The boundary likewise passed throughout the now shut Lion club, which had 2 bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh counties were referred to as "damp" or "completely dry" depending on whether people could drink in clubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was completely dry it was lawful to drink on Sundays in both English bars of the Lion however not the Welsh bar. 2 of the remaining open pubs in the town are completely in England and also the 3rd is completely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Further north is the English market community of Oswestry. The English part of the village remains in the civil parish of Llanymynech and also Pant, as well as in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.