Forden (Welsh: Ffordun) is a village near Welshpool in Powys, Wales, formerly in the historic county of Montgomeryshire.

Looking down on the parish is the Long Mountain, which stretches north eastwards from Forden through the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, England.

Forden is situated on the eastern bank of the river Severn, near Offa's Dyke, and includes the townships of Hem, Kilkewyd, and several others.

[4]The parish church of St Michael and All Angels, about half a mile to the west of the road from Welshpool to Montgomery, was enlarged in 1830.

Captain Stephen Beattie VC (1908–1975), a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross was born at Leighton, Montgomeryshire.

[6] For the purposes of the Senedd, Forden is part of the Montgomeryshire constituency and the Mid and West Wales electoral region.