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Meifod lies on the main A495 road, which eventually ends over the border in Oswestry.

Described in 1972 by Maxwell Fraser in his book, 'Welsh Border Country' as 'one of those perfect English towns which are unsurpassable in their friendly atmosphere and old-world charm', Ross is beautifully

This stronghold formed an integral part of the defences of the western border of Glamorgan, which also included castles at Bridgend and Coity.

A virtually deserted tree-lined High Street in Longtown, a small town on the Esk a few miles short of the Scottish Border.

The little hamlet of Brockweir, straggling along the floor of the Wye Valley and with a utilitarian bridge spanning the river itself, lies on the county border with Gwent.

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

Only a century and a half ago Hyde Park was bordered by mire and wilderness.

Its close proximity to the Dorset border makes it an ideal place to stay for anyone exploring both counties.

The sign reads, 'The first hotel in England' - and we are, indeed, very close to the English/Welsh border.

Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white and clean, The clear Thames bordered

The architect who had planned Sir Walter Scott's home in the Scottish borders rebuilt Canford's manor in the 1820s.

We are now right on the border - part of the inn is in Hampshire.

Tree-lined Criffel Street, in the handsome Solway seaside town of Silloth, is a reminder of the proximity of the Scottish Border.

In medieval times it was a market town owned by Combermere Abbey, a Cistercian abbey on the Cheshire border.

A walk through the countryside around Uplyme often takes you as much into Dorset as Devon, for the county border weaves around the ridges, woods and tiny brooks of the locality.

The Parade is a spacious street bordered by elegant late-Georgian houses and stucco terraces.

Near the Wiltshire border, St Peter's contains a tablet which recalls a chorister's dedicated service in this church.

Most of the mills built here were for cotton spinning and weaving; so many were established in the locality that just across the border in Derbyshire there is even a town called New Mills.

This rural lane leading to Kettering was to change dramatically in the 1930s, when it would be bordered by large detached houses with elaborate gardens.

Rising as it does in the hills on the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders, the Trent in 1885 was estimated at being about 150 miles in length with a drainage area of 4050 square miles, of which 2900 were