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A border town with a ruinous castle built by Henry III, Hawarden lies close to Chester on the former main road into Wales from the Dee lowlands and the Cheshire Plain.

The river rises on the Northampton-Oxfordshire border and winds east through Bedford on its leisurely way to the Wash near King's Lynn.

The second section of this chapter starts to the west of the city in Stapleford, close to the Derbyshire border, which follows the River Erewash southwards to the River Trent.

Monmouth is in the heart of the border country. Henry V was a son of the town and is commemorated by Agincourt Square, perhaps the finest monument to the king.

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction

Here we see the River Ceiriog, which is also the border between England and Wales: the cameraman is on the Welsh side.

Robertsbridge is a medieval village near the Kent border. There is no church in the village, the nearest being at Salehurst.

The photographer almost had his feet in Sussex while taking this picture, so close was he to the county border.

Here we see the Ceiriog river, which is also the border between England and Wales: the cameraman is on the Welsh side.

The town's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for frontier or border.

The English-Welsh border runs right through the village, indeed it runs right through the middle of the Lion Hotel.

Perched on its cliff overlooking the rivers Teme and Corve, Ludlow was built in a strategic location on the Welsh borders.

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

An old centre for the district that had a market close to the Hampshire border and the coast. The church of St John the Baptist has an avenue of yew trees.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border. He

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

High up on the Sussex border stands this ornate Victorian church, whose building was initiated by Viscount Beresford in 1839, but was then taken on by his twenty-year-old stepson Alexander Beresford

High up on the Sussex border stands this ornate Victorian church, whose building was initiated by Viscount Beresford in 1839, but was then taken on by his twenty-year-old stepson Alexander

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.

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.

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.