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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!!

Oswestry is not a tourist town. We visited due to my family history research. Still a pleasant little town. Old Oswestry hill fort just to the north of the centre was the highlight for me. As in most UK towns, the ambience of the town is spoiled by a few selfish hoons deliberately making noise with cars and motorbikes.

Oswestry is an agricultural small town and as such is quite rare in England so a really great place to wander around. Interesting local shops and plenty of cafes and pubs but beware, after 15:00 there was no food to be had (on a Thursday)! Only coffee and cake! Large carparks which is a mixed blessing. Personally I thought that too much of the town was given over to asphalt and the parking was too cheap! Many would see this as a bonus!

Small town but several pubs and restaurants to chose from, many independent eateries and shops as well as the old favourite for some Wetherspoons, WHSmiths, Costa, B&M etc. lovely indoor market and outdoor stalls on our weekend visit. All close together so easy to cover. No cars allowed in shopping area so safe for pedestrians & families. British Ironworks was closed on Sunday which was a shame as planned to drop in. Lovely evening meals in townhouse Brassiere and Sebastian’s, excellent standard of service and decor.