Excerpt from Shropshire Parish Registers, Vol. 8: Diocese of St. AsaphIn the distant days of the Plantagenets, Eyton, in his Antiquities of Shropshire, says, that Mines were worked in the Lime Rocks for silver, he bases his statement on the Pipe Rolls of 94 and 1195, which contain accounts of receipts and expenditure for some mining experiments carried on by John Le Strange of Ness, and Ralph Le Strange ofalvanley, successively Castellans of Carreghofa Castle - (within the parish of Llanymynech). These experiments were short lived, possibly owing to the small yield of the operations. But deep shafts and mounds of thrown up earth still witness to the fact that even as long ago as the time of the Romans this district was considered to possess mineral wealth, and the name Llanymynech can be translated Village of the Miners, though the Village of the Monks is another suggested interpretation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.