# Oswestry

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #72,620

## Definitions
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.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/oswestry