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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

Victoria Barracks 1898 Part of a large complex of military build- ings, Victoria Barracks were built in 1880 and occupied by the King's Own Scottish Borderers until 1939.

Gretna stands on the Scottish/English border, and as a result became popular for runaway marriages of English couples - Lord Hardwicke's act of 1754 abolished irregular marriages in England, but not in

Well off the beaten track and close to the West Sussex border, this village is now more commonly known as Oakwoodhill.

This little town, on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border, has been famed for its potteries since Roman times.

A wooden bungalow with its own mooring is similar to many bordering the rivers of the northern Broads.

Broadway Stores is in Norton, where a large housing estate extends right to the county border.

Todmorden Town Hall, built in 1870, once stood on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, a fact reflected in the carvings in the pediment frieze on its classical front, shown here: there are bales

Here we see the Ceiriog river, which is also the border between England and Wales: the cameraman is on the Welsh side. 70ft above the river, the aqueduct was a most impressive stone structure built in

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

Reading developed further south on higher land along the banks of the River Kennet, well away from the then marshy meads bordering the River Thames.

Lyme Regis straddles the border between Dorset and Devon, between two stretches of very unstable coastline.

The college gardens are bordered on two sides by the ancient city wall.

that great range of summits that rises above the surrounding plains of Worcestershire; they form one of the finest ridge walks in England, with extensive views all the way across the Midlands, the Border

Some fine old cottages and a pond border the large green and common.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border.