Llanymynech

infobox UK place
official_name= Llanymynech
country= Wales
country1= England
region1= West Midlands
population= 2,099 (with Pant)
shire_district= Oswestry
shire_county3= Shropshire
unitary_wales= Powys
constituency_westminster= Montgomeryshire
constituency_westminster1= North Shropshire
lieutenancy_wales= Powys
post_town= LLANYMYNECH
postcode_area= SY
postcode_district= SY22
dial_code= 01691
os_grid_reference= SJ266209
latitude= 52.781339
longitude= -3.090279

Llanymynech is a village straddling the border 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 border runs for the most part down the centre of the village's main street, with the eastern half of the village in England and the western half in Wales. The border also passed right through the now closed Lion pub, which had two bars in Shropshire and one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh counties were referred to as "wet" or "dry" depending on whether you could drink in pubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was legal to drink on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion but not the Welsh bar. Two of the remaining open pubs in the village are entirely in England and the third is entirely in Wales.

Just to the north of the village is Pant (the civil parish of Llanymynech and Pant covers the English part of Llanymynech and the whole of Pant). Further north is the English market town of Oswestry.

Features

The village is home to one of only three remaining Hoffmann kilns in the British Isles, and the only one with a chimney. The kiln at Llanymynech was used for lime burning.

Llanymynech is home to Llanymynech Golf Club. Perched atop the nearby cliffs, the 18-hole course is unique in the UK for being in 2 different countries - England and Wales.

Transport

The village was a terminus of the now defunct Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway, which ran from 1866 to 1960.

A branch of the Ellesmere Canal passed through Llanymynech, where it joined the Eastern section of the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa. Today the canal is known as the Montgomery Canal, and the section through Llanymynech is isolated, with a 800m section being navigable to boats. To the north to Pant the canal is dry. To the south the canal is isolated by lowered bridges.

Local heroes born in village

References

External links

* [http://www.llanymynech.org.uk Llanymynech Community Website]