Welshpool

Welshpool, a town of Montgomeryshire, North Wales, near the left bank of the Severn, 20 miles W. by S. of Shrewsbury. It has a parish church (restored by Street), a town-hall and market (1873) with a clock-tower 90 feet high, and the Powysland Museum (1874); whilst 1 mile south is Powis Castle, dating from the 12th century, with a fine picture-gallery and park—the seat from Elizabeth's time of the Herberts, as now of their and Clive's descendant, the Earl of Powis. The flannel manufacture has migrated to Newtown. Incorporated by James I. in 1615, Welshpool is one of the six Montgomeryshire (q.v.) boroughs. Pop. (1851) 6564; (1891) 6489.