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Great and Little Stanmore are situated close to the Hertfordshire border, and it is to the rising ground above the present village that the visitor needs to look for semi-rural quality.

In 1388, in true Border style, the second Earl of Douglas raided the Earl of Northumberland's territory to the south as a diversionary attack durng a major incursion by the Scots.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

At that time, the border between an England firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

It is Robert Stephenson's magnificent 28-arch Royal Border of 1850, which carries the railway 120ft above the river.

Until the 1930s the south side of the market, facing the camera, was bordered by a row of buildings which would be later demolished.

The Queen's Head c1955 In the early 19th century the Border town of Rothbury enjoyed a reputation as a health resort, where during the summer season visitors could 'drink goat's whey and enjoy

Longhole is the name given to a curiously-shaped channel, bordered by the north-easterly arm of the North Breakwater, which leads inland towards the central pier.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

An attractive garden borders the river in front of the Swan Hotel. Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house.

The village of St Boswells borders the main road from Jedburgh to Edinburgh. The 5th Duke of Buccleuch was just a boy when inherited his title in 1819.

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

The ground floor is barrel-vaulted and the entrance is on the north side at first floor level, both typical defensive measures in tower houses on both sides of the Border.

Tenbury Wells, The Church 1892 We are just across the border in Worcestershire here. St Mary's church sits overlooking the River Teme (also the county boundary).

Seaton is situated on Rutland's south- eastern edge, about half a mile from its border with Northamptonshire, overlooking the Welland Valley.

Lindale is close to the River Winster, the old Lancashire and Westmorland border. John Wilkinson, the ironmaster, is buried in the churchyard in an unmarked grave; it was his fifth burial.

Sandwiched between the long established 'tourist honeypots' of the English Lake District and the Scottish Borders, tourism had long been identified as a way of providing a considerable boost to

Seaton is situated on Rutland's south- eastern edge, about half a mile from its border with Northamptonshire, overlooking the Welland Valley.

A small village on minor roads near to the Surrey border. The church of St Mary Magdalene has two historic 14th-century brasses.

It rises on the border with Yorkshire, and tumbles down the hillsides to meet up with the River Hodder and the River Calder to gather strength before pushing on to Preston and the coast.

At that time, the border between those firmly under Norman control and those still willing to fight lay just a few miles to the north.

It grew from the humble beginnings of a bathing shelter on the border of North Meols into the sizeable conurbation depicted here.

Up to the southern border of Royston, the A10 follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street, but close to the market Ermine Street becomes the Old North Road (which was the A14 and is now the A1198) taking