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It grew from the humble beginnings of a bathing shelter on the border of North Meols into the sizeable conurbation depicted here.

Up to the southern border of Royston, the A10 follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street, but close to the market Ermine Street becomes the Old North Road (which was the A14 and is now the A1198) taking

The Icknield Way was a pre-Roman, Iron Age trading route running along the northern border of Hertfordshire.

Knighton is so close to the border that its railway station and hotel sit in England.

However, he is today best remembered for the distinctive style of the houses he designed along the Haywards Heath and Lindfield borders.

It was bordered by trees and shrubs, with clumps of trees and gravel paths.

The village stands on the border with the neighbouring county of Sussex.

This cluster of sparse conifers in Ampthill Park borders an entrance to the Cheshire Home for the Disabled that occupies a house built in 1686-88 for the Dowager Countess of Ailesbury and Elgin.

The River Lagan flows within a few miles of the huge Lough Neagh, which is bordered by four Ulster counties; a lot of work was done to make the river able to take barges, with a link to the lough.

The redevelopment of Botchergate is just the latest stage in the long-term rebirth of the great border city, continuing the process begun in the late 20th century.

The college admitted both boarders and town boys, and somewhat uniquely for the period, regarded them all with equal status.

In 1960 it became an independent prep school for day pupils and boarders.

Hollybush Lane lies in the southern part of the Garden City, and its tree-lined footpath and grassy triangular area typify Ebenezer Howard's vision of a ordered village atmosphere.

In 1960 it became an independent prep school for day pupils and boarders.

They included accommodation for twenty to thirty boarders, as well as a lecture room, large hall and classrooms.

Boldre (pronounced Bolder) church stands apart from its village and dates back to the time of the Norman kings.

Miss Ellinor Gabriel bought the house in 1873 for the first St Mary's School, founded by Canon John Duncan, and started with six day girls and three boarders.

The college opened in 1868, taking 80 boarders and 120 day boys, not all Methodists.

Today it is an independent co-educational school with 480 pupils, of whom 300 are boarders.

In the lower right-hand corner of the photograph, and on the near side of the road, the edge of the small lake known as Bolder Mere can be seen.

Now known as Truro School, the college was founded on the hill overlooking the city 10 years before this photograph was taken, 'affording a thorough English education at a moderate cost' for up to 120 boarders

It could take boarders, and must have been intended for the middle classes.

St Mary's churchyard contains the original Bolder Stone.

Here we see the south front of the grammar school; it is now Bedford School, and from the start took boarders as well as day boys.