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Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

The Hampshire/Surrey border boundary stone stands on this road.

It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border. The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border. The tower of the church of St Peter was rebuilt in the 18th century after the previous one fell down.

The town has not always been peaceful: like many others in this part of the country it suffered at the hands of the Borderers, who raided and reived until they were finally suppressed in the early 17th

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

Down the road is the Sussex border and East Grinstead.

When the castle was begun, the border between that part of England firmly under Norman control and those still willing to put up a fight lay just a few miles to the north.

Although this view is titled Shottermill, strictly speaking it shows Springhead in Camelsdale just over the Hampshire border on the south bank of the young River Wey - Shottermill is on the north bank

Tantallon was a stronghold of the Douglases, a powerful family who were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and

Do not shout too loud about it, though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.

When the castle was begun, the border between that part of England firmly under Norman control and those still willing to put up a fight lay just a few miles to the north.

One of the new towns acquired by Cheshire following the border change in 1974, Widnes developed in the 1800s along with the new chemical industries.

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.

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

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.

We now move away from boot and shoe country into the south of Northamptonshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire.

Easton Socon was originally in Bedfordshire, `on the borders of Huntingdonshire`; the early 20th-century directories tell us that the parish covered over 7000 acres, but only had a population of 2000

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

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

This view probably shows the fields and open ground at Lower Green, north of Ickleford and close to the Bedfordshire border.

This was a green, and the present Green Lane that borders the area perpetuates its memory.

This village is set high up close to the Sussex border. The village pub, the Hare and Hounds, has barely changed since this photograph was taken 35 years ago.