Llanymynech is a village and former civil parish straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool.

At one time Welsh counties were referred to as "wet" or "dry" depending on whether people could drink in pubs on Sundays.

[3] The hill above Llanymynech is crowned with an extensive Iron Age hillfort, which extends over 57 hectares (140 acres), and surrounds a cave opening known as the Ogof.

The hillfort would have served as protection for the mine, and housed the labourers employed in the extraction of copper.

A number of Roman artefacts have been found in the mine including a number of bones and burials, and a hoard of 30 first and second century silver coins of Roman currency found in 1965 by some schoolboys, now conserved at the National Museum of Wales.

In Anglo-Saxon times, Offa's Dyke was built c. 430 and 652, through what is probably the main street in Llanymynech, on the east side of the road.

It is thought the west wall of St Agatha's churchyard was built on the raised part of the dyke.

Being situated in the borderlands, the castle changed hands between the English and Welsh numerous times during the 12th and 13th centuries.

In 1194, the castle was recaptured by the English with the intention of reopening the mines on Llanymynech Hill and extracting silver.

Richard I had been captured and held for a ransom of £100,000, and the Bishop of Salisbury, Hubert Walter, heard of the discovery of silver at the Carreghofa Mine on Llanymynech Hill; he decided to develop the mine and reopen the mint at Shrewsbury to refine the silver and make it into coins.

In the 1230s, the castle was destroyed and the stones were eventually removed and used to construct nearby Carreghofa Hall.

Stipulated in the authorising act of parliament to avoid flat crossing of the existing canal and Tanat Valley Light Railway (TVLR), bridges had to be constructed to enable operations.

However, after it ran into financial difficulties, the CR took over the Nantmawr branch, agreeing to rebuild the southern end of the Potts so that it now formed a junction through Llanymynech.

After failing to create a junction with the GWR and the LNWR at Shrewsbury, the Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway suffered from low traffic and continual financial difficulties, having now also lost its main revenue stream from the Nantmawr branch.

Taken over by the GWR under the Railways Act 1921, it was again closed to passengers on 6 November 1933, but remained open as a military freight route until 1960.

A football club was formed in the village as far back as May 1858 in a field near Glanverniew House on the English side of the border.