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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.
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.
As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.
Tamworth fails to get a mention in the Domesday Book, but this is believed to be due to a clerical error caused by the fact that the town straddles the border between Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.
We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.
The last tour heads west from the Wiltshire border to Devonshire; we are never far from Dorset to the south.
Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.
They walked to the Welsh border and beyond, where they were fattened ready for sale to English markets.
Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.
Sitting as it does on the English-Welsh border, Oswestry was often attacked.
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
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.
Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.
A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.
