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Full record: Oswestry
| County | Shropshire |
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| Transcript | ...stre |
| Icon description | single building, castle |
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| Description | faded |
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| Etymology | St Oswald's tree; OE t.ēow, 'tree' |
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| Earlier editors | -/oswestry (OS 1935); oswestre (Parsons) |
| Early Maps | orwest(re) (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | no |
| Attested spelling | Osewastre 1324 Ipm, earlier attestations have the first element in the form Oswald- and similar. The application of the name Oswestry can not be traced back before the mid-thirteenth century; in the Domesday Book the mannor is described as Meresberie. |
