Editing Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (section)

==History==
It was an important site in the ancient [[commote]] (or [[cantref]]; sources disagree) of [[Mochnant]], as indicated by the ''ym-Mochnant'' in its name (translates to "in Mochnant").<ref name="Lloyd 246">{{cite book |title=A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest|last= Lloyd|first= John Edward|author-link= John Edward Lloyd|year= 1912|publisher= Longmans, Green, and Co.|page=246 |url= https://archive.org/stream/historyofwalesfr01lloyuoft#page/246/mode/2up|access-date=16 April 2015}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (historically also spelt 'Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant') was an [[ancient parish]], which straddled the county boundary between [[Denbighshire (historic)|Denbighshire]] and [[Montgomeryshire]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Book of Reference to the Plan of the Parish of Llanrhaiadr yn Mochnant |date=1876 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |location=London |page=20 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Book_of_Reference_to_the_Plan_of_the_Par/vgIIAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA9-PA20&printsec=frontcover |access-date=13 March 2025}}</ref> The county boundary followed the [[River Rhaeadr|Afon Rhaeadr]], which passes through the village. The parish church of St Dogfan was in the Denbighshire part of the parish, north of the river.<ref>{{cite web |title=Montgomeryshire Sheet V SE |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102186662 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=13 March 2025 |date=1886}}</ref> The division between the two counties reflected the partition of the ancient commote in the 12th century.<ref name="Lloyd 246"/>

Under the [[Local Government Act 1894]], parishes were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries. The parish was therefore split into two [[civil parish]]es, one in Denbighshire and one in Montgomeryshire; both parishes were called Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant (later changed to Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant). The divide continued following the local government reorganisation in 1974, with the former Denbighshire parish becoming a [[Community (Wales)|community]] in [[Clwyd]] and the former Montgomeryshire parish becoming a community in Powys. The northern community was transferred to Powys in 1996.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Wales) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=19|schedule=1}}</ref> Even then, the two remained separate communities within Powys until 2008, when they were reunited into a single community.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 March 2008|title=The Powys (Communities) Order 2008|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/584/made}}</ref>