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The park is now a well cared-for green oasis, with manicured lawns, footpaths fringed with lovely flower beds and shrub borders, and a number of benches.
The sea wall had not been built either, and the promenade is bordered by cobbles sloping to the beach, with wooden piles providing some protection against the breaking waves.
Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.
These thatched cottages are by the old Reading Room on the North and South Tidworth borders.
The Act of Union ended border warfare and Henry Blencow who lived here was knighted by King James I and became Sheriff of Cumberland.
About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.
Built as one of a series defending the English border from Welsh attack, the castle had already fallen into disrepair by the 1600s, when it was refortified during the Civil War.
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
We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.
Tadley is not far from the Berkshire border.
Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.
Tantallon was the stronghold of the Douglases, wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and Clydesdale.
It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
Guarding the road from the south, the Hotspur Gate was built in 1450; a licence to fortify the Border town of Alnwick had been granted in 1434.
It lies a little to the west of Penn, just across the county border in Staffordshire (where Penn also used to belong, of course).
The stronghold formed an integral part of the defences of the western border of Glamorgan, which also included the castles of Newcastle at Bridgend and Coity.
It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.
Moving south from Grantham, out into the oolitic limestone country towards the Leicestershire border, we reach Skillington; it has a good range of stone houses, and a parish church with some Anglo-Saxon
The college opened with 80 borders and 20 day boys.
