[2] The large Iron Age hill fort of Ffridd Faldwyn is sited northwest of the town and west of the Castle.

The town was established around a Norman stone castle on a crag on the western edge of the Vale of Montgomery.

The castle had been built in the early 13th century to control an important ford over the nearby River Severn and replaced an earlier motte and bailey fortification at Hen Domen, one mile away.

By this treaty King Henry III of England acknowledged Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales.

During the Civil War, the castle was captured by Parliamentary forces and subsequently slighted (damaged) to remove its military threat.

[9] Green Party candidate, Jeremy Thorpe, won the seat at the 2022 Powys Council election.

This O, enclosed around, smoothe, with no entrance found, yet soone with newest life to overflow So has thy tombe, by Pilate sealed, to us that third day Life revealed, O grant that I, some morning bright, my earthly Shell, then broke, may wear, in White, Thy Yoke.

In 1828 Thomas Penson, at the expense of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, raised the roof level over the first floor.

The predecessor of this building was probably a half-timbered structure, which the Speed map of 1610 shows was sited, lengthways, in the middle of Broad Street.

The tall octagonal governor's house, with the chapel above, was at the centre of four radiating two- and three-storey wings.

The gaol was closed in 1878 and all that now remains, apart from the gatehouse, is the Governor's House and the high wall of one cell block.

The school was built by the architect Thomas Nicholson on land donated by Lord Powis and financed by the then Rector and the Hereford Diocesan Board of Education as well as many smaller gifts.

Montgomery Town play in the Ardal Leagues North East division, Tier 3 of the Welsh football pyramid.