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( Newtown, Powys)
Newtown town centre Newtown was founded at the end of the thirteenth century when Edward I of England commissioned Roger de Montgomerie to construct a centre for the hamlet of Llanfair-yng-Nghedewain situated near the ford on the River Severn below the Long Bridge and around the church of St Mary in Cedewain, from which Newtown takes its original Welsh name.[2] The foundation is intimately connected to the fate of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales, whose new administrative centre at Dolforwyn Castle near Abermule so alarmed Edward I that it was besieged and Llywelyn's lands seized and granted to the Mortimers who transferred the administration of the cantref of Cedewain and the commote of Ceri from Dolforwyn Castle to the new settlement at Newtown. The town grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around the textile and flannel industry and the arrival of the Montgomeryshire Canal. In 1838, the town saw Wales' first Chartist demonstration. The town was designated as a "new town" in 1967 and has seen a large population growth as companies and people have settled, changing the rural market town character and today the town has developed into the largest town in Mid Wales.
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