Border between England and Wales is wrong, mountain surveyor says
A mountain surveyor claims the border between England and Wales has been incorrectly marked for more than a century - and England should be given more land.
Myrddyn Phillips says he has worked out that the line separating the two countries in the Black Mountains has been wrongly traced on Ordnance Survey maps dating back to 1887.But Mr Phillips said he and fellow surveyor Mark Trengrove remeasured the summit of the 703.5m peak and found it to be further into Wales than thought.
They placed the peak of Twyn Llech some 12m into Powys and claim the border should be moved to line up with the new watershed they have calculated. Since the ridge stretches for nine miles, it would mean there is 1.8 million sq ft of land that England is entitled to take back from Wales, according to The Times.
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