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Printable version; Page information; ... English: Map depicting the border between Wales and England, ... image/svg+xml. File history.
The River Dee marks the border between Farndon, England, to the left and Holt, Wales, to the right Bilingual "Welcome to Wales" sign Bilingual "Welcome to England" sign. The 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.
The term March is from the 13th-century Middle English marche ("border region, frontier"). The term was borrowed from Old French marche ("limit, boundary"), itself borrowed from a Frankish term derived from Proto-Germanic *markÅ ("border, area"). The term is a doublet of English mark, and is cognate with German Mark ("boundary"). [2]
The border with Denbighshire between Aldford and Shocklach (the Welsh-English border) runs along the River Dee, but this river meanders at will. Dropped meanders mean that there are three riparian semi-enclaves of Cheshire near Shocklach. These have been left alone. [44] River Mersey.
It has an estimated population of three million and the Welsh and English languages are both official languages. The Welsh language is an important element of Welsh culture . Its decline has reversed over recent years, with Welsh speakers estimated to be around 20 per cent of the population of Wales.
Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales.The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to have ordered its construction.
Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Borders of Wales" ... Irish Sea; W. Welsh Zone (Boundaries and Transfer of Functions) Order 2010
The North Welsh are sometimes referred to, in Wenglish, as Gogs (from the Welsh gogledd, "north") and the south Welsh as Hwntws (from tu hwnt roughly meaning 'far away over there' or 'beyond'). There are differences in the Welsh vocabulary between the north and south; for instance, the south Welsh word for now is nawr whereas the north Welsh is ...