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unusual facts about Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway



A483 road

Discussions have taken place to make the route from Ruabon to Oswestry a dual carriageway, as part of a plan to dual the route from Wrexham to Shrewsbury (part of which is the A5 road) in an effort to increase transport links with the M54 motorway.

Armand Philippon

He was taken first to Lisbon, and then shipped to England where he took up residence in Oswestry.

Baron Harlech

His son, the third Baron, represented Oswestry in the House of Commons as a Conservative and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Leitrim and of Merionethshire.

David Holbache

At around the turn of the 14th century he married Gwenhwyfar ferch Ieuan ab John, of Sweeney, in Oswestry Parish, who brought with her lands in Sweeney, Treflach and Maesbury.

George Wynn

George Arthur Wynn (14 October 1886 in Treflach nr. Oswestry – 28 October 1966 in Abergele, Denbighshire) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a forward for Oswestry United, Wrexham, Manchester City, Coventry City and Halifax Town.

Glyn James

He was educated at Oswestry Boys High School, where he played for the school team as well as turning out for Gobowen Juniors and the Druids club at Ruabon.

Golborne

It is more generally accepted though that the site of that battle was some considerable distance to the southwest, near Oswestry.

Henry David Leslie

After he retired, he founded the Oswestry School of Music and its Festival of Village Choirs.

The couple moved to Mary's family home, now known as Bryn Tanat Hall, at Llansanffraid, near Oswestry on the Welsh border.

Hoffmann kiln

The site at Llanymynech, close to Oswestry was used for lime-burning and has recently been partially restored as part of an industrial archaeology conservation project supported by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

How Not to Be Seen

Hiding nearby is Mr E.V. Lambert of Homeleigh, The Burrows, Oswestry, who has presented the narrator with a poser by choosing a very clever way of not being seen.

Humphrey Kynaston

Humphrey later married Isabella ferch Maredudd ap Howell ap Morrice of Oswaldestre (Oswestry), daughter of Maredudd of Glascoed and Thomasina Ireland of Wrexham, Denbighshire.

Huw Morus

Little is known about the poet's early years, but he may have been educated at the Ruthin Grammar School or at the Free School in Oswestry over the Shropshire border.

Llanymynech

The CR mainline from Whitchurch to Welshpool (Buttington Junction), via Ellesmere, Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech, closed on 18 January 1965 in favour of the more viable Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway route.

Oswestry by-election, 1904

George Ormsby-Gore had been Conservative MP for the seat of Oswestry since the 1901 Oswestry by-election.

Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway

The Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway was a railway line that ran from Oswestry in Shropshire to Whitchurch, Shropshire, via Ellesmere and the Welsh borders.

Pengwern

Cynddylan apparently joined forces with king Penda of Mercia to protect his realm, and together they fought against the increasingly powerful Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria at the Battle of Maes Cogwy (Oswestry) in 642.

Saint Winifred

Another well named after St Winifred is in the hamlet of Woolston near Oswestry in Shropshire.

Seth Powell

He also served Oswestry F.C. as secretary and spent twenty years in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 10th Baronet

At the time of his death on 13 May 1988, Williams-Wynn was living at Llangedwyn Hall, Powys, in the border country near Oswestry, Shropshire.

Thomas Raffles Davison

Born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1853, the second son of a Congregational minister, Davison was educated privately at Shrewsbury, and after showing a talent for drawing was articled to the architect William Henry Spaull in Oswestry, later working in the Manchester office of H J Paull.

Tom Lovatt-Williams

What was not publicised at the time was that it was based on his childhood experiences at Ellesmere, near Oswestry, where he was born.

Wat's Dyke

Wat's Dyke is a 40 mile (64 km) earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing to the east of Oswestry and onto Maesbury in Shropshire, England.

William Fitzalan

William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (1417 – 1487), a descendant of the FitzAlans of Oswestry.


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