Foel Wood

Foel Wood is a forest in Selattyn and Gobowen, Shropshire, England. Foel Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Pant-glas, as well as near the locality Brogyntyn Castle.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Oswestry and Church of St Mary, Selattyn.

Old Oswestry

Archaeological site

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Oswestry is a large early Iron Age hill fort in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry in north west Shropshire, 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".

Church of St Mary, Selattyn

Church

Church of St Mary, Selattyn

Photo: Peter Craine, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oswestry Castle

Castle

Oswestry Castle

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 The castle has also been known as, or recorded in historical documents as: Album Monasterium; Blancminster; Blankmouster; Blancmustier; Croes Oswald; L'Oeuvre; L'uvre; Castle Loure; Luure; Luvre; Lvvre: Castle Philip;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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oswestry and Chirk.

Oswestry

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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.

Chirk

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Chirk is a town in the county borough of Wrexham, North Wales. The town is on the Welsh border near Oswestry.

Gobowen

Village

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

Foel Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Selattyn and Gobowen, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.884° or 52° 53′ 2″ north

Longitude

-3.0914° or 3° 5′ 29″ west

Open location code

9C4RVWM5+JC

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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