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Oswestry

Oswestry is a market town and historic railway town in , close to the Welsh border. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated natural area and national character area.
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  • Type: Town with 17,500 residents
  • Description: town in Shropshire, England
  • Also known as: “Croesoswallt” and “Oswestry, Shropshire”
  • Postal code: SY10

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oswestry Castle and Old Oswestry.

Castle
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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 The castle has also been known as, or recorded in historical documents as: Album Monasterium; Blancminster; Blankmouster; Blancmustier; Croes Oswald; L'Oeuvre; L'uvre; Castle Loure; Luure; Luvre; Lvvre: Castle Philip; Oswaldestre;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.

Archaeological site
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is a large early Iron Age hill fort in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry in north west , England. The earthworks, which remain one of the best preserved hill forts in the UK, have been described as "The Stonehenge of the Iron Age Period".

Railway station
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is a Grade II listed heritage railway station in Oswestry, , England. It was closed when passenger services were withdrawn in 1966.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morda and Gobowen.

Village
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is a village on the outskirts of the town of Oswestry, , located near the border of with . The village is named after the River , a tributary of the .

Village
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is a village in , England, about 3 miles north of Oswestry. The population according to the 2011 census was 3,270. is situated 2½ miles north of Oswestry.

Village
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Oswestry is a market town and historic railway town in , close to the Welsh border. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated natural area and national character area. is situated 2½ miles northeast of Oswestry.

Oswestry

Latitude
52.8603° or 52° 51′ 37″ north
Longitude
-3.0548° or 3° 3′ 17″ west
Population
17,500
Elevation
446 feet (136 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB OWR
Open location code
9C4RVW6W+43
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29760180
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640861
Wiki­data ID
Q1009221
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Oswestry” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Oswestry”
  • Basque: “Oswestry”
  • Belarusian: “Озуэстры”
  • Bengali: “ওসওয়েস্ট্রি”
  • Breton: “Oswestry”
  • Bulgarian: “Озуъстри”
  • Catalan: “Oswestry”
  • Cebuano: “Oswestry”
  • Chinese: “Oswestry”
  • Chinese: “奥斯沃斯特里”
  • Chinese: “奧斯沃斯特里”
  • Czech: “Oswestry”
  • Dutch: “Oswestry”
  • Esperanto: “Oswestry”
  • Finnish: “Oswestry”
  • French: “Oswestry”
  • German: “Oswestry”
  • Greek: “Όσβεστρι”
  • Gujarati: “ઓસ્વેસ્ટ્રી”
  • Hebrew: “אוזווסטרי”
  • Hebrew: “אוסווסטרי, שרופשייר”
  • Irish: “Oswestry”
  • Italian: “Oswestry”
  • Japanese: “オズウェストリ”
  • Japanese: “オスウェストリー”
  • Kannada: “ಓಸ್ವೆಸ್ಟ್ರಿ”
  • Korean: “오스웨스트리”
  • Ladin: “Oswestry”
  • Latin: “Album Monasterium”
  • Latin: “Blancmonasterium”
  • Latin: “Crux Oswaldi”
  • Latin: “Oswestria”
  • Lithuanian: “Osvestris”
  • Lithuanian: “Oswestry”
  • Lithuanian: “Ozvestris”
  • Malay: “Oswestry”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oswestry (Shropshire)”
  • Northern Sami: “Croesoswallt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oswestry”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oswestry”
  • Norwegian: “Oswestry”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oswaldestreo”
  • Persian: “اوسوستری”
  • Polish: “Oswestry”
  • Portuguese: “Oswestry”
  • Romanian: “Oswestry”
  • Russian: “Озуэстри”
  • Russian: “Освестри”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوسوستری”
  • Spanish: “Croesoswallt”
  • Spanish: “Oswestry”
  • Swedish: “Oswestry”
  • Tajik: “Освестри”
  • Tajik: “Освестрӣ”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்வீஸ்டரி”
  • Telugu: “ఓస్వేస్త్రి”
  • Turkish: “Oswestry”
  • Ukrainian: “Освестрі”
  • Urdu: “وسویستری”
  • Volapük: “Oswestry”
  • Welsh: “Croes-oswallt”
  • Welsh: “Croesoswallt”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Oswestry”. Photo: P.khiao, CC0.