Oswestry (England)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
אוסווסטרי (אנגליה)
Name (Latin)
Oswestry (England)
Other forms of name
nnaa Oswestry, Eng
Coordinates
-3.0538 -3.0538 52.8598 52.8598 (gooearth )
W0030200 W0030200 N0525100 N0525100 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 157207087
Wikidata: Q1009221
Library of congress: n 88058496
Sources of Information
  • 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)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 52°51ʹ00ʺN 003°02ʹ00ʺW)
  • Oswestry Rural Parish Council. Rural news, June 2016:t.p. (Oswestry)
  • The seventh report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, within the hundred of Oswestry, 1819.
  • 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)
  • [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)
  • Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Oswestry, England). The seventh report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, within the hundred of Oswestry, 1819.
  • Lippincott, 1962(Oswestry; municipal borough, NW Shropshire, England)
  • LC data base, 8/17/88(hdg.: Oswestry, Eng.)