Offa's Dyke Path
Introduction
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Offa's Dyke Path
Image: © Jeff Buck Taken: 3 Aug 2011
Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a massive linear earthwork, roughly following 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 (2.44 m) high. In the 8th century it formed some kind of delineation between the Anglian kingdom of Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. Research in recent decades has dispelled many of the earlier theories and ideas about the earthwork.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.421269
Longitude
-3.09649