Llanyblodwel and Pant was a

ward Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

in the county of

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...

Abolition

With the re-organisation of local government in Shropshire in 2009 (i.e. the abolition of the borough of Oswestry and the creation of a unitary

Shropshire Council Shropshire Council is the local authority of Shropshire (district), Shropshire, in England, comprising the ceremonial county of Shropshire except Telford and Wrekin. It is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority, having the powers ...

) the ward was abolished and now forms part of a wider Llanymynech electoral division.

Geography

The ward covered the villages of

Pant Pant may refer to: Clothing * Pants or trousers, an article of outer clothing worn on the lower half of the body * Underpants, an item of underwear Places * Pant, Denbighshire, Wales; a township of Llysfaen *Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales *Pan ...

Llynclys Llynclys (, )) is a small village in Shropshire, England, in the civil parish of Llanyblodwel. It lies north of Pant at the crossroads of the A483 and B4396, where there are several houses and a pub, the ''White Lion''. Etymology The name Lly ...

, Porth-y-waen and

Llanyblodwel Llanyblodwel is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England; the spelling "Llanyblodwell" was commonly used in the past, and the village was sometimes simply referred to as "Blodwel". The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census ...

, as well as half of

Nantmawr Nantmawr is a village in Shropshire, England. It is located about 5 miles south west of Oswestry and close to the Wales, Welsh border. The Offa's Dyke Path runs through the village. Like many of the towns in the Welsh Marches, the area was form ...

and the English half of

Llanymynech Llanymynech is a village straddling the border between Montgomeryshire/Powys, Wales, and Shropshire, England, about 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool. The name is Welsh for "Church of the Monks". The village is on the ba ...

, and contained the two

parishes A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

and

Llanymynech and Pant Llanymynech and Pant is a civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. The population of the parish is approximately 1,675. The two main villages within the parish are Llanymynech and Pant, Shropshire, Pant, though only the Engli ...

. Despite being in England, almost without exception the villages and other settlements are named in

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, a vestige of the area's history as part of neighbouring

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

. The terrain varies from flat farming land at an elevation of roughly to the east of Llanymynech in the south, to rugged hills in the west reaching an elevation of roughly to the north of Bryn.

References

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