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Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south. We start close to Stourhead, at King Alfred's Tower.

It was an old Border stronghold, the oldest part of which is the Dacre Tower, an old pele tower, which dates from the 14th century.

The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.

In doing so, he helped to define the borders of Wales.

Rowlands Castle, on the Sussex border, is named after the medieval castle that had been destroyed by the building of the railway running from London to Portsmouth.

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west. There are several entrances to the park at Streetly, most for pedestrians only.

Sitting as it does on the English-Welsh border, Oswestry was often attacked. The town therefore has few really old buildings - Llwyd Mansion is one of these, dating from 1604.

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

This beautiful village is situated on the Sussex border on a headstream of the Medway river. The village contains a number of fine weatherboarded houses and a school with Tudor timbering.

The English border runs directly through the village, so that Welsh Sabbath drinking laws meant that on Sunday half was 'dry' and all the boozing was done on the English side.

The 1869 bridge seen here replaced an odd 18th-century one: it was made of timber on the Berkshire south side and stone on the Oxfordshire or Caversham side, owing to a cross border disagreement.

Ringwood sits on the River Avon, and is situated on the Hampshire/Dorset border. In 1936 the town mill was demolished, making way for the first Ringwood bypass - it has since been widened.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting. There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

It incorporates a medieval tower, seen here to the left, which would have been used by the townsfolk as a place of refuge during the days of border warfare.

Founded in the 1850s, they established a number of small religious communities on the Surrey/Sussex border. Cokeler women wore black straw bonnets over their plaited buns.

The Gothic-arched County Bridge straddles what was the old border between Yorkshire and the Palatinate of Durham.

A small town at the gateway to Wales, close to the English border and Offa's Dyke, Chirk is noted both for its castle, in continuous occupation from the 13th century, and its position at the entrance to

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. Mushroom growing, brick making and fullers earth extraction were local industries.

A scattered hillside village on a minor road in a wooded area near the Surrey border. Mushroom growing, brick making and fullers earth extraction were local industries.

Bronygarth sits across the England-Wales border, which at this point follows the line of the River Ceirog in the valley.