Llanymynech is a village situated between Powys, Wales and Shropshire, England. Llanymynech, name meaning ‘Church of the Monks’ is split by the border which runs through the main street, putting the east in England and the west in Wales. Home to one of the earliest mining sites for copper, it manufactured bronze weapons and at the top of Llanymynech Hill, from which the copper came, is an Iron Age Hill Fort which surrounds the opening of the cave known as Ogof, the entrance to the mine and it is here Roman artefacts were found and are now housed at the National Museum of Wales. Llanymynech Rocks Nature Reserve, part of Shropshire’s Wildlife Trust, featured on the BBC as a geographical feature of interest made up entirely of limestone, a hangover of 2000 years of quarrying and mining. Also here is one of three remaining Hoffman’s Kilns in the British Isles.