Editing Powys (section)

==History==
{{Main|Scheduled Monuments in Powys}}
The county is named after the ancient Welsh [[Kingdom of Powys]], which in the sixth century AD included the northern two-thirds of the area as well as most of Shropshire and adjacent areas now in England, and came to an end when it was occupied by [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd]] of [[Kingdom of Gwynedd|Gwynedd]] during the 1260s.

The uplands retain evidence of occupation from long before the Kingdom of Powys, and before the Romans, who built roads and forts across the area. There are 1130 identified [[Tumulus|burial mounds]] within the county, of varying styles and ages, dating from 4000 BC to 1000 BC, most of them belonging to the [[Bronze Age]].<ref>[http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/pfr/pfr.htm Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust: Introducing Prehistoric burial and ritual sites.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055248/http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/pfr/pfr.htm |date=2016-03-04 }} Accessed 6 April 2014</ref> Of these, 339 are [[Scheduled Monument|scheduled monument]]s. [[Menhir|Standing stones]], most again dating to the Bronze Age, also occur in large numbers, 276 being found across the county, of which 92 are scheduled. From the [[Iron Age]], the county has 90 scheduled [[hillfort]]s and a further 54 enclosures and settlement sites.

Powys is served by the [[Cambrian Line]] and [[Heart of Wales line]] which offer connections to major towns and cities such as [[Swansea]], [[Wrexham]], [[Shrewsbury]], [[Birmingham]], [[Wolverhampton]], [[Manchester]], [[Cardiff]], [[Aberystwyth]], [[London]] and [[Telford]]. The county used to be served by key railways such as the [[Mid-Wales Railway]], [[Oswestry and Newtown Railway]], [[Tanat Valley Light Railway]], [[Llanfyllin Branch]], [[Leominster and Kington Railway]], [[Swansea Vale Railway]] and the [[Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway]], all of which offered connections to [[South Wales]], [[Hereford]], [[Oswestry]], [[North Wales]] and [[West Wales]] but have all since closed.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}