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Oswestry United F.C.
Oswestry United Football Club was a association football, football club from Shropshire, playing at Victoria Road. The club was formed in September 1893 after the demise of Oswestry Town F.C., Oswestry Town in 1891. They joined the Shropshire & District League. The club won the Shropshire Senior Cup in 1899 and 1909, and won the Welsh Cup in 1901 and in 1907. Demise In September 1914 it was reported that the club had lost five players due to World War I, and it was likely that the club would no longer be able to continue in the Lancashire Combination League. By October 1914 the club are shown to have only played two fixtures in the league. The club were due to play a Shropshire Cup fixture with Shrewsbury Town F.C., Shrewsbury Town in March 1915, but could not raise a team and were later ejected from the competition. When football started again after World War I the club did not re-emerge. League history Honours Cup *Welsh Cup **1900–01 Welsh Cup, 1900–01, 1906–07 W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswestry
Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483 and A495 roads. The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Oswestry until that was abolished in 2009. Oswestry is the third-largest town in Shropshire, following Telford and Shrewsbury. At the 2011 Census, the population was 17,105. The town is five miles (8 km) from the Welsh border and has a mixed English and Welsh heritage. Oswestry is the largest settlement within the Oswestry Uplands, a designated natural area and national character area. Toponym The name ''Oswestry'' is first attested in 1191, as ''Oswaldestroe''. This Middle English name transparently derives from the Old English personal name Ōswald and the word ''trēow'' ('tree'). Thus the name seems once to have meant 'tree of a man called Ōswald'.A. D. Mills, ''A Dictionary of English Place Names'' (Oxford: Oxford Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
