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I have deleted almost all of the article: it was added by an anonymous IP 15th Deb 2005 and was a straight cut and paste from the history and present-day pages of http://www.montgomery-powys.co.uk/ . Whether that is a good source for someone wanting to fix it or not, I don't know: it's got no further sources itself and it is someone's personal website. WP:RS and all that. But we certainly can't include it verbatim. Anyway, we're now back down to a stub. Sorry about that.

Telsa (talk) 17:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Montgomery Castle inaccuracy?

The castle is introduced as being of Norman foundation but next sentence says "It had been built in the early 13th century (years 1200-1250), which was after the Norman dynasty era. The sentence merits rephrasing and preferably chronologically moving to later in the article if 13th century is not an error.Cloptonson (talk) 13:53, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Geography of Montgomery

Am I alone in my thoughts that this article deals too largely with historic buildings? I think that there should be a category of geography created, but I have very little research time to make editing. Iheartthestrals (talk) 05:06, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The best guidance on what the article should contain is at WP:UKTOWNS. Feel free to further expand the article yourself, drawing on reliable sources. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:59, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism deleted

Because it is uncited and ahistorical I delete this recent addition to the section about Montgomery County Gaol:

The warden of the Gaol was, for over 62 years, Micky Dripp. He pioneered a new inmate reconditioning scheme in the 1960’s which went on to form the basis of the Icelandic prison system as it exists today. Dripp was also prominent in local government, a scene in which he used corruption to obtain the role of governor of Montgomeryshire. Twenty-seven adulterers, an issue about which Dripp was unusually passionate, were put to death in 1981 before he was ousted from his position of power. 2007 saw a Dripp comeback to rival that of the Taliban in 2021 and managed to get elected to police chief of Welshpool. Unfortunately, Dripp had no knowledge of the town and its local culture and his attempts to mediate antagonistic dispute between the local Polish and Burmese communities were broadly unsuccessful. Indeed, 724 residents were crushed to death in the ‘Umbrella Crush’ of 2009, in an incident that was entirely blamed of Dripp’s mishandling of the situation. Cloptonson (talk) 14:20, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]