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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 college opened with 80 borders and 20 day boys. Almost at once something went wrong - there was no lack of teaching skills, but the managerial expertise needed was not there.

Civil wars, rebellion and border raids all brought destruction before the stability of the mid-18th century, and prosperity from trade with the Indies encouraged investment in grand houses and civic buildings

Like its near neighbour Dunsfold, this cluster of weather-tiled cottages close to the Surrey-Sussex border derives part of its name from the term for a cattle enclosure.

In fact it sits between two small lakes, making it a well defended site from possible Welsh attack - the border is only three or four miles away.

From Tyrley the canal crosses the Tern by a single-arched aque- duct and crosses the border into Shropshire.

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

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.

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.

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

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

They walked to the Welsh border and beyond, where they were fattened ready for sale to English markets. This route was chosen because it had no expensive toll gates.

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.

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 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.

It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border. The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

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.The Norman church of St Mary

Down the road is the Sussex border and East Grinstead.

The town has not always been peaceful: like many others in this part of the country it suffered at the hands of the Borderers, who raided and reived until they were finally suppressed in the early 17th

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.