Borough of Oswestry

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Borough of Oswestry
Oswestry
Location in Shropshire
status Borough
region West Midlands
Administration County Shropshire
Administrative headquarters Oswestry
surface 256.08 km² (172.)
Residents 40,400 (347.)
ONS code 39UD
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founding 1974
resolution 2009

Oswestry was a district with the status of a borough in the county of Shropshire in England . The administrative seat was the city of the same name Oswestry . Almost half of the population lived in the borough in the city of Oswestry. The borough also included the places Trefonen and Ruyton-XI-Towns .

The District was formed on April 1, 1974 and emerged from the former Rural District Oswestry. It was dissolved in the course of a territorial reform on April 1, 2009 and went on in the new Shropshire Unitary Authority .

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′  N , 3 ° 3 ′  W