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Old Oswestry

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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Old Oswestry is an Iron Age hill fort located in northwest Shropshire, England.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198909520

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
52.8720259036, -3.048030163

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Old Oswestry Iron Age Hill Fort (800 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

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Old Oswestry makes connections with:

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Old Oswestry receives connections from:

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Place type:
hillfort

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Wikidata Old Oswestry (Q7084681)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Old Oswestry: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198909520> [accessed: 26 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198909520 |title=Places: 198909520 (Old Oswestry) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 26, 2025 5:48 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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