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Oswestry

Oswestry proper noun: a town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).

Proper noun

Oswestry

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).
  2. A former borough in Shropshire, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Shropshire unitary authority.

Origin of Oswestry

Recorded as Oswaldestroe in 1191, a tree of a man called Oswald; from Old English trēow.

Words formed from Oswestry

Questions about Oswestry

What does Oswestry mean?
Oswestry means a town and civil parish with a town council in north-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ2929).
What part of speech is Oswestry?
Oswestry is a proper noun.

Words near Oswestry in the dictionary

  1. Oswegans
  2. Oswego
  3. Oswego County
  4. Oswego tea
  5. Oswego teas
  6. Oswestry
  7. Oswestry Rural
  8. Oswin
  9. Osypenko
  10. ot
  11. ot-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Oswestry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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