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Oswestry (England)

LC control no.n 88058496
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Geographic headingOswestry (England)
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Geographic subdivision usageEngland--Oswestry
Associated countryGreat Britain England
Associated placeShropshire (England)
Found inThe seventh report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, within the hundred of Oswestry, 1819.
Oswestry Rural Parish Council. Rural news, June 2016: t.p. (Oswestry)
Wikipedia, viewed 5 April 2018 (Oswestry; large market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England; it is five miles/8km from the Welsh border and has a mixed English and Welsh heritage)
Lippincott, 1962 (Oswestry; municipal borough, NW Shropshire, England)
LC data base, 8/17/88 (hdg.: Oswestry, Eng.)
[UK] Communities and local government web site, 20 Aug. 2009: Local Government Re-organisation 2009 page (Shropshire County Council and its lower tier councils have been merged into a new Shropshire Unitary Authority. Its districts no longer exist)
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 52°51ʹ00ʺN 003°02ʹ00ʺW)
Collins Britain atlas and gazetteer, 1999 (Oswestry, Shrop.; town near Welsh border, 16m/26km NW of Shrewsbury. Iron Age hillfort to N; transport museum at old station)
Geographic area codee-uk-en