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Forden ((ウェールズ語:Ffordun)) is a parish, formerly in the historic county of Montgomeryshire near Welshpool in Powys. It forms part of the community council of Forden, Leighton and Trelystan Looking down on the parish is the Long Mountain, which stretches north eastwards from Forden as far as the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire. ==History== Traces of a Roman road and of a Roman camp called locally "the Gaer" are near the River Severn, in a township of the parish called Thornbury.〔'Forden', in Samuel Lewis, ''A Topographical Dictionary of Wales'' (1833)〕 In 1868, the ''National Gazetteer'' said of the parish The parish church of St Michael and All Angels, about half a mile to the west of the road from Welshpool to Montgomery, was enlarged in 1830. For some three hundred years the church was the burial-place of the family of Devereux, whose estate at Nantcribba was within the parish. The marble font, oval in shape, was presented in 1794 by Richard Edmunds, Esq.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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