Welshpool

Welshpool[1] (Welsh: Y Trallwng) is a town in Powys, Mid Wales. Get in By Car Welshpool is at the cross-roads of the A483 (north/south) and the A458 (east/west). The A458 connects to the UK Motorway network at the M54 near Shrewsbury By Rail Welshpool is on the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth line. By Air Light aircraft can use Mid Wales Airport, just to the south of the town. By Water The Montgomery Canal passes through the town. Currently, a few miles either side of the town are navigable, but restoration work continues on the rest of the canal. Get around See Do Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway[2]. This steam-hauled, narrow gauge railway links Welshpool with the village of Llanfair Caireinion, 8.5 miles away. The Offas Dyke Path national walking trail passes through the town. This is a long distance walking trail following the length of the England/Wales border from Prestatyn to Chepstow Buy The Old Station, Severn Road, Welshpool (Follow signs to the station from the town centre), ☎ 01938 556622 (fax: 01938 554288). When the railway line was moved to accommodate a new bypass road in the early 1990s, the historic station building was left redundant. Now it has been turned into a kind of mini department store, with gifts, clothes, woollens, golf equipment and a coffee shop and restaurant. Coed y Dinas, (About a mile out of town on the Newtown road), ☎ 01938 555545. Mon-Sat 8.30am-5.30pm; Sun 10am-4pm. Sprawling retail mecca in converted Victorian farm buildings. Garden Centre, equestrian store, pet shop, food hall, furniture outlet, kitchenware. Part of the same group as Cheap Charlies, whose shops in Aberystwyth and Newtown have been popular with local bargain hunters for years. Eat Drink Sleep Contact Get out This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!