You would be hard pressed to find a town with a more dramatic history than that of Montgomery in Montgomeryshire on the Welsh Borders. For hundreds of years it was of the greatest strategic importance on the Welsh Marches and saw battles and sieges during the border struggle between Wales and England.
Following the conquest of England in 1066 the Normans set their sights on Wales and it was the Marcher Lords who set about building forts along the Welsh Borders which led to the founding of the town of Montgomery. From the Welsh Wars of the 13th and 15th Century through to the English Civil War of the 17th Century Montgomery was in the thick of it. Today Montgomery is a quiet border town ......