Editing Llanidloes (section)

==Structures in Llanidloes==
[[File:Llanidloes hall.JPG|thumb|right|[[Old Market Hall, Llanidloes|Old Market Hall]]]]
[[File:Llanidloes Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 2040311.jpg|thumb|[[Llanidloes Town Hall]]]]
===Buildings===
*The half-timbered [[Old Market Hall, Llanidloes|Old Market Hall]] stands at the crossroads of the four streets of the original [[Middle Ages|medieval]] town. Built around 1600, it is the only surviving building of this type in Wales. [[Assizes|Assize courts]] were held in the hall around 1605, and [[John Wesley]] preached from a [[pulpit]] stone on the open ground floor in 1748.<ref>*{{citation|last=Dillon|first=Paddy|title=Glyndwr's Way|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-tdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT80|accessdate=11 April 2016|date=14 April 2014|publisher=Cicerone Press|isbn=978-1-78362-049-4|page=80}}</ref>
*[[Llanidloes Town Hall]], Broad Street, designed by the architects Shayler and Ridge in 1908. Faced in Cefn stone from [[Minera]]. [[Frank Shayler]] was a notable [[Arts and Crafts]] architect and this is one of the best examples of his work.{{sfnp|Scourfield|Haslam|2013|page=170}} The Town Hall now contains the Llanidloes Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.powys.gov.uk/article/1613/Llanidloes-Museum  |title=Llanidloes Museum  |publisher=Powys Council|access-date=17 May 2022}}</ref>

===Bridges===
*Two masonry [[arch bridge]]s, the Long Bridge and the Short Bridge, were designed by [[Thomas Penson]]. The former is a 3-arch bridge built in 1826 over the confluence of the Rivers Severn and Clywedog and is currently Grade II [[Listed building|listed]]. It replaced a mid 18th-century wooden bridge, also called Long Bridge.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-8327-long-bridge-long-bridge-street-llanidloes#.VomXHU9RSx1 Long Bridge, Long Bridge Street, Llanidloes], British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 January 2016.</ref> Short Bridge is a single arch masonry bridge over the River Severn, dating from 1849.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-8368-short-bridge-short-bridge-street-llanidloe#.VomYyk9RSx0 Short Bridge, Short Bridge Street, Llanidloes], British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 January 2016.</ref>

===The railway station and the Newtown and Llanidloes Railway===
[[File:Llanidloes station, with southbound Mid-Wales line train geograph-2540463-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ex-[[Great Western Railway|GWR]] [[William Dean (engineer)|"Dean Goods"]] [[GWR 2301 Class|2301 Class 0-6-0]] No.2483 at [[Llanidloes railway station]] passenger train going towards [[Builth Wells]] and [[Brecon]], 29 August 1949]]
[[Llanidloes railway station]] was opened in 1864 by the [[Llanidloes and Newtown Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://history.powys.org.uk/history/llani/railway1.html|title=Llanidloes - the railway.|website=history.powys.org.uk}}</ref> Designed as a grand junction station, it was to connect the [[Mid-Wales Railway]] and the [[Manchester and Milford Railway]] in the south, with Newtown and the [[Oswestry and Newtown Railway]] to the north. Designed to hold the railway company's offices, the building is in the [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] style. The Llanidloes and Newtown railway eventually formed part of the [[Cambrian Railways]], linking it with South Wales. The station closed for passengers on 31 December 1962. The Llanidloes by-pass road runs along a section of the former railway, and the station still stands beside this road. It is now restored and occupied by small businesses.{{sfnp|Scourfield|Haslam|2013|page=173}}

===Llanidloes War Memorial Hospital===
Opened in 1920 as a memorial to local servicemen who died in [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://diogel.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/DATRhagorol/Chwilio.aspx?iaith=en&geiriau_chwilio=war&chwilio_yn=0&chwilio_am=dau&math_chwiliad=unrhyw_gair&rhif_tudalen=39|title=Thirteenth Annual Report of the Llanidloes and District War Memorial Hospital|year=1934|publisher=Gwynedd Council Archives|access-date=24 March 2020}}</ref> In 2006, Powys Local Health Board (LHB) announced that it was planning to make cuts which would result in the downgrading or closure of [[Llanidloes War Memorial Hospital]]. The Save Llanidloes Hospital Action Group was formed in response.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/healthandfitness/pages/patswallow.shtml|first=Pat|last=Swallow|title=My protest – Llanidloes Hospital|website=[[BBC.co.uk]]|date=10 October 2006|access-date=21 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111173810/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/healthandfitness/pages/patswallow.shtml|archive-date=11 November 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>