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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Oswestry. You may be able to find further references to Oswestry in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Oswestry | hundred | Bartholomew | OSWESTRY | a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred | Imperial | OSWESTRY and NEWTOWN railway | a railway system | Imperial | OSWESTRY, ELLESMERE, and WHITCHURCH RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial | Oswestry (or Western) Division | Bartholomew | Oswestry Town Part and Oswestry Rural Part | township | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Oswestry.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ASTON | a chapelry | Imperial | Caenynion | place | Bartholomew | CAENYNION | a township | Imperial | Crickheath | place | Bartholomew | CRICKHEATH | a township | Imperial | Hisland | hamlet | Bartholomew | HISLAND | a township | Imperial | LLANFORDA | a township | Imperial | Maesbury | village | Bartholomew | Middleton | village | Bartholomew | MIDDLETON | a township | Imperial | PENTREGAER | a township | Imperial | SWEENEY | a township | Imperial | Sweeney Hall | seat | Bartholomew | TREFERCLAWDD | a township | Imperial | TREFLACH | a township | Imperial | Trefonen | ecclesiastical district | Bartholomew | TREFONEN | a chapelry | Imperial | WESTON-COTTON | a township | Imperial | WOOTTON | a township | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Oswestry within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Camden | Shropshire and Cheshire | 4 | Gerald of Wales | Book II, Ch. 12: Oswestry and Shrewsbury | 3 | Gerald of Wales | Book II, Ch. 10: Flintshire | 1 | Arthur Young | 1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Weston Cotton | 0 | 1 |
Morda | 0 | 1 |
Brogyntyn | 0 | 3 |
Llanforda | 0 | 1 |
Middleton | 0 | 2 |
Selattyn | 0 | 2 |
Hisland | 0 | 2 |
Sweeney | 0 | 2 |
Hengoed | 0 | 2 |
Trefonen | 0 | 2 |
Fernhill | 0 | 2 |
Gobowen | 0 | 2 |
Aston | 0 | 2 |
Daywell | 0 | 2 |
Whittington | 4 | 2 |
Moreton | 0 | 2 |
Wootton | 0 | 1 |
Rhydycroseau | 0 | 2 |
Treflach | 0 | 1 |
Halston | 0 | 2 |