WELSHPOOL (or Welchpool, so called because Pool, its old name, led to confusion with Poole, in Dorsetshire; Welsh Trallwm)

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WELSHPOOL (or Welchpool, so called because Pool, its old name, led to confusion with Poole, in Dorsetshire; Welsh Trallwm) , a market town and municipal and contributary parliamentary borough of Montgomeryshire, N. Wales, in the upper Severn valley, on the Montgomeryshire canal and the Cambrian railway, 8 m. N. of Montgomery, and 182 m. from' London. Pop. (1901) 6121. Its buildings and institutions include the old

Gothic

GOTHIC

church of St Mary, the Powysland Museum, with local fossils and antiquities, and a library, vested (with its science and art school) in the

corporation

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a
body
- BODY
, corpus, corporis)

in 1887.

Powis

POWIS, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Castle (about a mile S.W. of the town) is the seat of

Earl

EARL

Powis

POWIS, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

, and has been in the possession of the Herberts for many generations. The

flannel

FLANNEL

manufacture has been transferred to Newtown, but Welshpool has tweeds and woollen shawls, besides a

fair

FAIR

trade in agricultural produce, malting and tanning. The town returned a member to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

from 1536 to 1728, was again enfranchised in 1832, and now (with Llanfyllin, Llanidloes, Montgomery, Machynlleth and Newtown) forms the Montgomery

district

DISTRICT

of parliamentary boroughs. A charter was granted to the town by the lords of Powis, confirmed by James I. (1615), and enlarged by Charles II. The castle was begun, in or about 1 roq, by Cadwgan ab Bleddyn ab Cynfyn (Cynvyn), and finished by Gwenwynwyn; in 1196 it was besieged, undermined and taken by Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury. Retaken by Gwenwynwyn in 1197, it was dismantled by Llewelyn, prince of N. Wales, in 1233. It then remained for several years in the hands of the lords of Powis. During theCivil War, the then lord Powis, a royalist, was imprisoned, and the castle was later demolished. Powis Castle, being of red

sandstone

SANDSTONE

, is usually called in Welsh Castell Coch (red castle). In the park is Llyn du (black pool), whence Welshpool is said to be named.

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