Oswestry Rural is a geographically large
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
located in
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It is situated south of
Oswestry itself, and extends from the border with
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
in the west. It covers an area of and had a population of 4,504 in the
2011 census
The parish includes the villages of
Rhydycroesau
is a tiny village on the English-Welsh border, west of Oswestry on the B roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, B4580 road. It lies partly in the Shropshire parish of Oswestry Rural; the other part is in Montgomeryshire, Powys. ...
,
Trefonen,
Morda,
Maesbury
Maesbury is a small scattered community in Shropshire, England, south of the town of Oswestry, falling within the Oswestry Rural parish.
The name is derived from ''maes'', meaning ''field'' or ''plain'' in Brythonic Welsh,
and ''burh'', me ...
, and various other hamlets including
Treflach,
Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it lies by road south-west of Carlisle and to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It i ...
,
Tyn-y-coed,
Croesau Bach,
Ball and
Aston Square.
See also
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Listed buildings in Oswestry Rural
References
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Civil parishes in Shropshire