Welcome to our pages on the local history of Llanidloes and the surrounding district in the ancient county of Montgomeryshire in mid-Wales. The town itself has medieval origins and is the first town on the River Severn. Select from the list below for particular aspects of the past of this Severn valley community. As with the other communities on the website, we have been using original archive documents, early school logbooks, old photographs and other sources to tell some of the story of the area.
	Introduction	Disaster at Tylwch, 1899
	A death in 1782	Street life
	A guide of 1812	School life
	Trade directory, 1835	The Great War
	The flannel industry	The railway
	Chartist outbreak, 1839	Town Criers
	The mining industry	A Llanidloes tannery
	A gazetteer of 1843	Llanidloes today
	The Mills family
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