600 Years of Educational Excellence

On the far-western edge of the Shropshire Plain, nestling up against the foothills of the Welsh mountains, liesour school which, since its foundation 600 years ago, in 1407, has taught generations of pupils in an unbroken sequence. Not only is the antiquity of this establishment, Oswestry School, remarkable, but the nature of its founding too. Unlike every earlier school (except one, Winchester College, founded some twenty years before), Oswestry was founded on a truly independent basis, having no connection to any ecclesiastical foundation, thereby earning it the title ‘Free’. Whilst not being anti-religious, its governance was in the hands of local non-clerical Trustees.

Please select read more to view pictures of Oswestry School from and about its 600 year history.