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Llanymynech is a village straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, regarding 9 miles (14 kilometres) north of the Welsh community of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for “Church of the Monks”. The village gets on the financial institutions of the river Vyrnwy, and also the Montgomery Canal passes through it. The border competes the most component along the frontages of the structures on the eastern (English) side of the town’s primary street, with the eastern fifty percent of the village in England and also the western half in Wales. The Church of England parish church of St Agatha exists simply in England, although the entire town depends on the same ecclesiastical parish. The boundary likewise passed throughout the now closed Lion bar, which had two bars in Shropshire as well as one in Montgomeryshire. At one time Welsh counties were described as “damp” or “completely dry” relying on whether people could drink in pubs on Sundays. When Montgomeryshire was dry it was lawful to consume on Sundays in the two English bars of the Lion yet not the Welsh bar. 2 of the remaining open clubs in the village are completely in England and the 3rd is completely in Wales. Simply to the north of the village is Pant. Further north is the English market town of Oswestry. The English part of the village remains in the civil church of Llanymynech and Pant, as well as in the selecting ward of Llanymynech in Shropshire. This ward had a population at the 2011 census of 3,988.