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Offa’s Dyke, great English earthwork extending linearly, with some gaps, from the River Severnnear Chepstow to the seaward end of the Dee estuary, passing for 169 miles (270 kilometres) through the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire, and Flintshire. It was built at the orders of Offa, the great Mercian king of the second half of the 8th century, who sought to define the boundary between his kingdom and the lands of the Welsh, many of whom he had dispossessed. For centuries the dyke marked the boundary between England and Wales, the place names to the east being English and those to the west largely Welsh. However, only in a few places does it follow the English–Welsh boundary as it is now fixed.

Offa's Dyke
Section of Offa's Dyke along the current border between England and Wales.



The dyke was not so much a fortification as a demarcation line, consisting as it did of a plain bank (sometimes 60 feet [18 metres] high) and a ditch (12 ft deep) facing Wales. Many sections are still visible, and a modern long-distance path for touring walkers runs its length, through beautiful country.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Offas-Dyke



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Geez, you dang Limeys got me again! After working with them for years now, I've picked up some of their slang and speech.

Soon as I saw your question, I copied it and showed to one of the Devs and he said the same as me when I first saw it. Please take no offense as none is intended. Office Dyke!  :D

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I liked this, SirFurry...a dike (dyke) built a bit after 750 AD, and now these folks are hiking along it, with portable solar power they use to recharge their cell phone batteries!

...and they stop at a farmhouse to refill their water bottles, with all those English creeks running through the countryside. Well, hiking in the 1950's, we would NEVER carry water, just drinking from any creek we happen to cross! Now, however, the creeks are full of Giardia lamblia, as well as other parasites and various fertilizer or other chemical contamination, and who knows what else...

oh well, this is progress! Right?

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Yeah....it is very busy in late Spring and Summer.....there is a whole series of those walking videos.

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The scenery just lovely, SFA!

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