Old Oswestry Hillfort has been in its location for thousands of years. Other geographic locations such as the Dee and Severn Rivers are likewise the same. Today, there are many, many new locations that dot the landscape. Thus how do these old places relate to the new places? The following diagram shows the relationship that Old Oswestry has to some of the new places. This figure is modified from multimap.com some years past.
You can see the location of the hillfort just north of the town Oswestry. The town has its own history regarding the origin of this name. The next map is taken from a visitor's guide titled escape which states on the cover "Our country will captivate you". [Indiania Jones is also on the cover!] (www.oswestry-welshborders.org.uk) On the second page it begins it's story "Where Shropshire meets Wales." ... "Where life on the edge of both Wales and England excites". I would guess my Celtic Ancestors had some of the same thoughts.
This is taken from the very last folded page of this guide dated 2005. It is in this area that my Jones ancestors shared some of their corridors of time. Location, location, location.
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