If you wander across the border for some out of Wales exploring and want to rummage around picture perfect, pretty villages but don't want to stray too far, the area known as the Welsh Marches is the destination to consider.
The border country between Wales and England has no modern legal or official definition for the size of the area or what is included within its invisible boundaries but many people consider it to be at least partial slices of the English counties that hug the border.
The counties that are buddies on the border are Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire on the English side and Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys and Monmouthshire on the Welsh side.
