Townships in Montgomeryshire

[3] The Townships were grouped into Hundreds, and this formed the basis for the Montgomeryshire Court of Great Sessions.

In the large township of Rhandir in Llandyssil parish, the trefi of Coed-wig, Trefganol and Cefn-y-coed were all merged.

[5] The exact extent of many townships can be recovered from many of the Enclosure Awards, but for some Montgomeryshire parishes such as Llangynog the information appears to be missing.

The responsibilities of Townships further declined with the establishment of the Poor Law Unions in 1834, which were organised on a parish basis.

[9] As the pattern of administration evolved in Elizabethan and later times, the Welsh Township was expected to have its own Court House (sometimes called a Plas), and to provide a pinfold, stocks and butts for archery.

The maintenance of roads and bridges was also a responsibility of the Township,[10] but this was reduced in 1819, when Thomas Penson was appointed as the first County Surveyor for Montgomeryshire.