Oswestry
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English
Etymology
Recorded as Oswaldestroe in 1191, a tree of a man called Oswald; from Old English trēow.
Proper noun
Oswestry
- A town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929). [1]
- A former borough in Shropshire, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Shropshire unitary authority.