Often they are followed by talks by invited speakers. In Oswestry, Kinokulture is actively involved in this festival. Oswestry was traditionally a Welsh speaking town and the parish church conducted services in Welsh until English is the dominant language today, but there are still some Welsh speakers. Oswestry has one of the few Welsh-language bookshops outside Wales.
In the Census, The second largest group There are a number of places of worship in Oswestry. St Oswald's Church was first mentioned in the Domesday book and a tithe document in Shrewsbury the same year.
There is a new window in the east nave, designed by stained glass artist Jane Grey in There is an associated primary school. The Religious Society of Friends also holds meetings in Oswestry. A small Muslim community exists in the town. A plan to transform a 19th-century former Presbyterian church on Oswald Road into a permanent base for meetings and prayer services fell through in March due to the cost. Oswestry is at the junction of the A5 with the A and A The A5 continues from Shrewsbury to the north, passing the town, before turning west near Chirk and entering Wales.
The town has regular bus routes that link nearby villages and towns including Wrexham and Shrewsbury. The railway station, once on the main line of the Cambrian Railways , was closed as a consequence of the s' Beeching Report on British Railways. Opened in , the section from Whitchurch to Welshpool Buttington Junction , via Ellesmere , Whittington, Oswestry and Llanymynech , closed on 18 January in favour of the more viable alternative route via Shrewsbury , leaving only a short branch line of the former Great Western Railway from Gobowen to continue to serve Oswestry — but only until 7 November The GWR branch had once run into a separate GWR Oswestry terminus, but this has long since disappeared and the land redeveloped as a bus terminus and supermarket.
Trains were switched to the main Cambrian station from 7 July The main building of the Cambrian station is still a prominent landmark in the town centre: it once housed the headquarters of the Cambrian Railways company. After restoration, this building was reopened as the Cambrian Visitor Centre in June but closed on 11 January It later reopened, and has since evolved into the headquarters of the Cambrian Heritage Railways CHR and a small catering establishment known as "Buffers"; other parts of the building have been converted into retail and office units to contribute to the upkeep of the building.
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