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MONTGOMERY ( Tre' Faldwyn)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTGOMERY ( Tre' Faldwyn)  , a municipal and See also:parliamentary See also:borough, See also:market See also:town, and the See also:county town of See also:Montgomery-See also:shire, See also:Wales, situated on a wooded See also:hill near the See also:east See also:bank of the See also:Severn, 7 M . S. of See also:Welshpool (See also:Cambrian railway) . Pop . (1901), 1034 . The See also:principal feature of the town is the ruined See also:castle . Not far off are the traces of an extensive See also:British fort, and, about a mile east, the See also:line of See also:Offa's Dyke, forming the See also:Shropshire boundary . The borough was incorporated by See also:Henry III., when the castle was enlarged, and was the See also:scene of frequent contests between that See also:king and See also:Llewelyn the See also:Great . In the 14th See also:century the castle was held by the Mortimers, from whom it passed to the Yorkists . The See also:Crown gave it, in the 15th century, to the Herberts of Cherbury, one of whom, in 1644, surrendered it to the Parliamentarians, who dismantled it .

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