Llawnt is a village in
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 ...
, England. The name comes from
Middle Welsh, borrowing from the English 'lawn'. The meaning in this case is 'green' (named after a piece of green land in the centre of the village).
The village is located about a mile from the border between Shropshire and
Powys, near
Rhydycroesau
is a tiny village on the English-Welsh border, west of Oswestry on the B roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, B4580 road. It lies partly in the Shropshire parish of Oswestry Rural; the other part is in Montgomeryshire, Powys. ...
, and approximately four miles west of
Oswestry
Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483 and A495 roads.
The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of ...
. Its location and its Welsh name shows that this was at one time part of Powys. This changed with the 16th-century
Acts of Union, when the Lordship of Oswestry was given to Shropshire.
The
River Morda
The River Morda is a minor river in Wrexham County Borough and Powys, Wales and Shropshire, England, lying mainly to the south-west of the town of Oswestry. The river flows in a generally eastward direction from its source near Llechrydau, Wre ...
flows past the village.
Villages in Shropshire
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