A Walk around the Welsh Borders including some of Offa's Dyke

Along the Montgomery canal...



view into Wales

probably part of Offa's Dyke in a wood (we didn't have a map for this bit)

one foot in Wales, the other in England

looking out into Wales over a display board with Charles Darwin on it

winding mechanism for carriages from a quarry - down an incline into England

over a canal bridge and through fields...

...across a heath

...past cliffs

Wales

This was a 4 hour walk starting in Llanymynech (which has the Wales- England border along its main street).  The walk was circular so we had lunch in the Dolphin Inn here when we'd finished.  There was a canal that had been superseded by a railway, now no longer in existence, an old quarry and winding house, a huge lime kiln...all this amongst farmland, heath and woodland.  And we joined part of the Offa's Dkye trail for the last part of the walk, though there were some other parts of it that we think we found too.
 
(Offa's Dyke is a massive linear earthwork, roughly followed by some of the current border between England and Wales. In places, it is up to 65 feet (19.8 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.4 m) high. In the 8th century it formed some kind of delineation between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh Kingdom of Powys).  So says Wikipedia.