Coordinates: 52°50′35″N 3°03′29″W / 52.843°N 3.058°W / 52.843; -3.058 Oswestry Rural is a geographically large civil parish located Shropshire, England. It is situated south of Oswestry itself, and extends from the border with Wales in the west. It covers an area of 61.02 square kilometres and has a population of about 3,500.
The parish includes the villages of Rhydycroesau, Trefonen, Morda, Maesbury, and various other hamlets including Treflach, Whitehaven, Tyn-y-coed, Croesau Bach, Ball and Aston Square.
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“What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)