Oswestry railway station
Oswestry railway station is a Grade II listed heritage railway station in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. It was closed when passenger services were withdrawn in 1966.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Oswestry Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shelf Bank and Oswestry Castle.
Shelf Bank
Nature reserve
Shelf Bank is a hill in the centre of Oswestry which has been a local nature reserve since 2014. It has an elevation of 145 m and is a 3-hectare area consisting of acid grassland and naturally regenerated areas of woodland and scrub.
Oswestry Castle
Castle
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oswestry Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, England. The castle has also been known as, or recorded in historical documents as: Album Monasterium; Blancminster; Blankmouster; Blancmustier; Croes Oswald; L'Oeuvre; L'uvre; Castle Loure; Luure; Luvre; Lvvre: Castle Philip; Oswaldestre; Meresberie. Oswestry Castle is situated 1,200 feet west of Oswestry railway station.
Church of St Oswald
Church
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Church of St Oswald is situated 2,300 feet southwest of Oswestry railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oswestry and Morda.
Oswestry
Oswestry is a market town and historic railway town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated natural area and national character area.
Morda
Village
Photo: Chris Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morda is a village on the outskirts of the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, located near the border of England with Wales. The village is named after the River Morda, a tributary of the River Vyrnwy.
Whittington
Village
Photo: AtticTapestry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oswestry is a market town and historic railway town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated natural area and national character area. Whittington is situated 2 miles northeast of Oswestry railway station.
Oswestry railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Oswestry, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.86137° or 52° 51′ 41″ northLongitude
-3.04986° or 3° 2′ 60″ westOpen location code
9C4RVX62+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1942796426OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q7108259
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Oswestry railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Oswestry”
- French: “gare d’Oswestry”
- French: “Oswestry”
- Welsh: “gorsaf reilffordd Croesoswallt”
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Highlights include Cambrian Visitors Centre and Wilfred Owen Green.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oswestry railway station”. Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.