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Oswestry is a friendly, traditional market town, in North West Shropshire on the border with Wales.
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Oswestry is a Shropshire market town almost surrounded by Wales. It is an undiscovered corner of North Shropshire that began over 3000 years ago when the iron age hill fort, Old Oswestry, was built. This is one of Britain’s finest hill forts and is the place for scenic walks with wonderful Shropshire views. Over thousands of years the border location created a need for fortresses and castles and n

ow you can follow a trail of castles through Shropshire and North Wales. The industrial revolution then brought limeworks, canals, aqueducts and railways and their legacy give today’s visitors fascinating days out on heritage railways and the amazing ‘stream in the sky’ at World Heritage Site Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. From Offa’s D**e National Path, to the Shropshire way and Oswald’s trail, Oswestry and The Borderlands are the perfect location for an activity holiday walking along the border between England and Wales and into England’s largest inland county - Shropshire. Oswestry is still a market town with lively street markets and speciality artisan markets throughout the year. The indoor market is bustling with an eclectic mix of stalls. The centre piece of the town is the traditional park, with its wonderful floral displays and live events thorough the summer. Don’t miss the food festival or soaring Hot Air Balloon Carnival. Visit Oswestry and enjoy café culture, great award winning independent shops and pubs and stay longer at one of our individual hotels, b and bs or self catering cottages.

Address

Oswestry Market Hall, Bailey Head
Oswestry
SY111PZ

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 3pm
Friday	10am - 3pm
Saturday	10am - 3pm

Telephone

+441691662753

Website

https://www.visitoswestry.co.uk/

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Oswestry and the Welsh Borderlands

Surprising – Friendly - Historic

Oswestry – this small border town on the edge of Shropshire and the brink of Wales may not be familiar to you and certainly, many of the visitors that arrive here say: What a surprise Oswestry is – there is so much to see and explore. We’ll have to come back again. So let us surprise you and entice you to visit.

First take a spectacular, historic and mysterious 3000 year old hill fort that was the beginning of Oswestry and add a friendly thriving town that still has a weekly market. There’s a lively café culture which, combined with the eclectic mix of small independent shops, entices visitors for miles around.

Then scatter a few castles around; sprinkle in canals, meres, mosses and the World Heritage site of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal and you will begin to get that distinctive border feeling.