Borders of England - Solway Firth, Offa's Dyke, Offa's Dyke Path, Welsh Marches, Wales-England Border (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Solway Firth, Offa's Dyke, Offa's Dyke Path, Welsh Marches, Wales-England border, Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English, Scots' Dike, Bristol Channel, Anglo-Scottish border, Treaty of York, Severn Estuary, River Wye, Union Bridge, Welsh Marches Line, Wat's Dyke, River Monnow, Carter Bar, Windy Gyle. Excerpt: The Wales-England border, between two of the countries of the United Kingdom, extends for about 160 miles (257 km) from the Dee estuary, in the north, to the Severn estuary in the south. It has followed very broadly the same line since the 8th century, and in part generally follows the line of Offa's Dyke, a linear earthwork. However, the modern boundary was essentially fixed in 1535, when the former marcher lordships which occupied the border area were abolished and new county boundaries were created. The administrative boundary of Wales was confirmed in the Local Government Act 1972, which was implemented in 1974. Whether Monmouthshire, created in 1535, was part of Wales, or an English county treated for most purposes as though it were Welsh, was also settled in 1974. The River Dee marking the Wales-England boundary between Holt and Farndon Bilingual "Welcome to England" signThe modern boundary between Wales and England runs from the salt marshes of the Dee estuary adjoining the Wirral Peninsula, across reclaimed land to the River Dee at Saltney just west of Chester. It then loops south to include within England an area south-west of Chester, before rejoining the Dee, and then loops east of the river to include within Wales a large area known as Maelor, formerly an exclave of Flintshire, between Bangor-on-Dee (in Wales) and Whitchurch (in England). Returning to the River Dee as far as Chirk, the boundary then loops to the west, following Offa's Dyke itself for about 2 miles, and including wit...