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Oswestry is a historic town and well worth a visit. I chose this weekend as it was during the Wilfred Owen Festival. ( Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry and St Oswald Church was the place where his parents were married and he was christened). I attended two short plays and a musical concert, which was outstanding. I would recommend this festival should it be run again. I like the historic buildings, independent book shop and multitude cafe and public houses of great age and character. It is a small town. St Oswald Church is particularly beautiful. Oswestry does not have a rail link which seems very strange. However, Gobowen has a station and a local bus runs to Oswestry. The people of the town were friendly and welcoming.

The town itself is small but nice. It has a very well kept park and plenty of places to eat, although we chose to eat in the hotel. Unfortunately there is no train station so you need to get a cab from Gobowen. We took the bus to Shrewsbury which took around an hour which was very easy to do

Oswestry is a very nice Town a good base to explore surrounding area of Shropshire also Wales the shopping area has got a lot of the older shops which makes it interesting [try the butchers in main street if you like lamb] have got no

Family have just moved to the beautiful town of Oswestry. The people in the town who we engaged with, were all very friendly and helpful. We have a newborn baby with us and the Fox pub, which is a lovely local pub, saw said baby and immediately lit the fire to welcome her and keep her warm. That is the essence of the people in this town.

Oswestry is a lovely town. It is an ideal place to stay to visit both Powys Castle and Chirk Castle over a two day period. We found everyone we spoke to very friendly and helpful. There is a nice range of shops and a good choice of restaurants, cafes and pub for food.

Lovely town, with lots of independent retailers and a really nice indoor market. There are the usual empty shops you get in most towns nowadays, some of them really beautiful buildings, so hopefully they will fill up again - or perhaps the local council could have an initiative with pop-up shops to make use of the space? We were lucky to be staying at Sebastian's, in the town centre, which has free parking. It's annoying to have to pay for parking otherwise, which we've done on short visits before. Even blue badge holders have to pay, although get an extra hour 'free'. We live in West Oxfordshire and all public car parks in Witney, Chipping Norton and Burford are free. Surrounding villages pretty* but no pubs open lunchtimes that we could find, mainly evenings only. Oswestry has plenty, and we enjoyed the open mic night at the Griffin, and the Bailey Head is brilliant with a huge choice of craft beers and real ales. Lovely parks right in the centre, including a fully fenced dog park, free for users. Really nice town, friendly people and would consider moving here. *Watch out for some of the country roads - on leaving and en-route to Kelsall, attempting to avoid horrendous tailbacks on the main A-road, we strayed into Wales and found ourselves (thanks to sat-nav) on what could only be described as a track - no signage to indicate the road was out of use, and once we were committed, couldn't turn around so had to soldier on for a couple of miles through the worst 'road' I've ever driven on. Don't use Garmin TomTom app, stick with Waze!!