English Explanatory Dictionary

Oswestry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.

Word forms

Oswestry

Etymology

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

Derived words

Oswestry Rural
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