Anglo-Scottish border

Uncommon card · No. 160348

The Anglo-Scottish border is a land boundary that separates England and Scotland on the island of Great Britain. Though separating two countries and legal systems, it is an internal border of the United Kingdom. It runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west. It is known colloquially as "the border" in the whole of Scotland and the English counties of Cumbria and Northumberland. The Firth of Forth was the border between the Picto-Gaelic Kingdom of Alba and the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria in the early 10th century. It became the first Anglo-Scottish border with the annexation of Northumbria by Anglo-Saxon England in the mid-10th century. In 973, the Scottish king Kenneth II attended the English king Edgar the Peaceful at Edgar's council in Chester. After Kenneth had reportedly done homage, Edgar rewarded Kenneth by granting him Lothian. Despite this transaction, the control of Lothian was not finally settled and the region...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0