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The market town of Haltwhistle straddles the present-day A69 a few miles from the border with Cumbria.

Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.

The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.

The boathouse photographed here on the Essex/Hertfordshire border lies close to the interestingly named Carthegena Lock.

Within a short distance, the river becomes the border between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

Within a short distance, the river becomes the border between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border.

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

The military presence in the town and the museum of the South Wales Borderers - even the 13th-century cathedral was semi-fortified, which is most unusual - has perhaps helped maintain a sense of order.

Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.

Sir Walter Scott, poet and novelist, visited Burley and compared favourably the wild heathland thereabouts to his beloved Scottish border countryside.

Despite the fact that they were supposed to be on the same side when it came to defending the Borders, the Herons of Ford and the Manners of Etal did not always see eye-to-eye.

Motor vehicles dominate the scene in this market day picture, and at least one trader has crossed over the border from Lancashire to sell his wares.

The long-straw roof has an attractive patterned border and ridge.

It connects Norfolk to Suffolk over the River Ouse, making Thetford a border town.

Hartford lies between Huntingdon and St Ives, bordering on the Ouse.

The inn, one of the most famous in the area, lies on the Berkshire's border with Hampshire, just to the south of Newbury.

After 1856, a residence north of the border of not less than three weeks was required before a marriage could take place.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

The Douglases were a powerful family: they were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway and skilled in war.

The original town was built around a six acre lake called the Mere, its southern edge bordered by a large village green.

Father and son admire the tidy flower borders and shrubs in what is now Tower Gardens, more than a century ago.

The Edge is not the highest point in the county; at the eastern border with Derbyshire the land rises to nearly 1800ft, and to over 1900ft at Black Hill in Longdendale.

So close to the English border is Knighton that the railway station and hotel are actually on English soil.