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It was once the seat of the powerful Douglas family, wardens of the Border Marches and lords of Galloway.

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

In the 1870s a Dr Prince persuaded Lord Abergavenny, the landowner, to develop this area, bordering the Ashdown Forest and set at a healthy 800 ft above sea level, as a health resort.

As in picture No 39385, the photographer's activities grip the attention of all those present - with the exception of a border collie, who only has eyes for his master standing beside the laden cart

High up on the Sussex border stands this ornate Victorian church, whose building was initiated by Viscount Beresford in 1839, but was then taken on by his twenty-year-old stepson Alexander

High up on the Sussex border stands this ornate Victorian church, whose building was initiated by Viscount Beresford in 1839, but was then taken on by his twenty-year-old stepson Alexander Beresford

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

East of Chiddingfold the lanes wind to Alfold, which lies close to the Sussex border.

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

Perched on its cliff overlooking the rivers Teme and Corve, Ludlow was built in a strategic location on the Welsh borders.

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

Robertsbridge is a medieval village near the Kent border. There is no church in the village, the nearest being at Salehurst.

The photographer almost had his feet in Sussex while taking this picture, so close was he to the county border.

Here we see the River Ceiriog, which is also the border between England and Wales: the cameraman is on the Welsh side.

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

The English-Welsh border runs right through the village, indeed it runs right through the middle of the Lion Hotel.

Until the 1930s the south side of the market, facing the camera, was bordered by a row of buildings which would be later demolished.

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 church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

An old centre for the district that had a market close to the Hampshire border and the coast. The church of St John the Baptist has an avenue of yew trees.

The lord of the manor, William Gossip, purchased land here with the view to owning a substantial but convenient house in this rural part of the West and North Yorkshire border. He

The photograph looks south-east along the culverted stream bordering Station Road, with housing of the 1920s and 30s on the extreme right.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.

Diss, this small, stylish town on the Suffolk border, evolved around a six-acre pool called Diss Mere, which penetrates almost to the edge of the main street.