History and heritage societies and organisations in Montgomeryshire
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Montgomeryshire
Museums, archives and heritage in Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire, inland county of North Wales, bounded N. by Denbighshire, E. and SE. by Shropshire, S. by Radnorshire, SW. by Cardiganshire, and W. and NW. by Merioneth; greatest length, 37 miles; greatest breadth, 30 miles; area, 495,089 acres, population 65,718. Montgomeryshire is almost wholly mountainous and bare, but on the Shropshire side there are some … Read more
Libraries and archives in Montgomeryshire
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Historic places to visit in Montgomeryshire
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Woman of the waterways
From Mid Wales to the Black Country and back, Hannah Evans had a hard life on the canal system, writes Raymond Humphreys. Life could be hard for anyone sucked into the early industrial revolution. The story of my great-grandmother, Hannah Evans, illustrates this. Hannah was born in Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire in 1848, the second of the … Read more