Oswestry ("Oswald's Cross")'s a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, very close to the Welsh border. It's at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads. The town was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of Oswestry until it was abolished on 1 April 2009 and's the third largest town in Shropshire, following Telford and Shrewsbury. The 2001 Census recorded the population of the civil parish as 15,613, the urban area as 16,660, and a 2008 estimate suggested that the latter fig… (More on Maserfield)