The Offa's Dyke Path is close by and the Marches Way, the Beacons Way and Usk Valley Walk all pass through the town.

A dispute on this point shall be determined in the Marches by the judgement of equals.

Traditional franchise jurisdictions of various powers were held by municipal corporations, religious houses, guilds, early universities, Welsh Marches, and Counties Palatine.

At the age of three, he was sent by his father to Ludlow Castle as nominal head of the Council of Wales and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future Edward V of England in his duties as Prince of Wales.

Hereford is served by a 4-platform railway station on the Welsh Marches Line which opened in 1854.

" The results of his method of governing his states soon showed themselves in insurrections, conspiracies, assassinations and rebellion, especially in Umbria, the Marches and Romagna ; the violent repression of which, by a system of espionage, secret denunciation, and wholesale application of the gibbet and the galleys, left behind it to those who were to come afterwards a very terrible, rankling and long-enduring debt of party hatreds, of political and social demoralisation, and — worst of all — a contempt for and enmity to the law, as such.

Bologna, Ferrara, Umbria, the Marches, Benevento and Pontecorvo were all formally annexed by November of the same year, and a unified Kingdom of Italy was declared.

She was received by Lord Dacre, Henry's Warden of the Marches, and taken to Harbottle Castle in Northumberland.

Marches were further popularized with performances by circus bands.

Marches that commonly have the first playing of the second strain quiet and the second loud include The Stars and Stripes Forever, His Honor, The Washington Post, Hands Across the Sea, On the Mall, and a load of others, particularly by Sousa.

Perhaps his most important book, the Penguin paperback " The Case for Conservatism ," was a similar response to " Labour Marches On " by John Parker M. P.

In the early years of John's reign de Burgh was greatly enriched by royal favour, receiving the honour of Corfe in 1199 and three important castles in the Welsh Marches in 1201 ( Grosmont Castle, Skenfrith Castle, and Llantilio Castle ).

The county of Cerdanya has its origin in the Spanish Marches established by Charlemagne.

The Order arose in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio, an Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of the Marches, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged.

As a result, castle building by the Norman nobility across England and the Marches lacked a grand strategic plan, reflecting local circumstances such as military factors and the layout of existing estates and church lands.

The castle-guard system faded into abeyance in England, being replaced by financial rents, although it continued in the Welsh Marches well into the 13th century and saw some limited use during Edward I's occupation of Scotland in the early 14th century.

Lynch suggests that the troubles of the 1450s between James II and the Douglases which have been interpreted by some historians as the legacy of Robert II's policy of encouraging powerful lordships was in fact a continuation of David II's build up of local lords in the Marches and Galloway — Robert was satisfied with government to leave alone the Douglas and the Stewart earls in their fiefdoms.

From the Norman Conquest until 1241, the area was held by the Lacy family, a powerful dynasty with lands in the Welsh Marches.

A Marcher Lord was a strong and trusted noble appointed by the King of England to guard the border ( known as the Welsh Marches ) between England and Wales.

Royal writ did not obtain in the Marches: Marcher lords ruled their lands by their own law — sicut regale (" like unto a king ") as Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, stated ( Nelson 1966 ), whereas in England fief-holders were directly accountable to the king.

He began by exchanging estates he held in England and by obtaining grants in the Welsh Marches from the King.

This was abolished by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542 ( also known as the Acts of Union ), which organised the Marches of Wales into counties, adding some lordships to adjoining English counties.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he served as Warden of the Scottish Marches, and in the 1544 campaign the English force under Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford was supported by a fleet which Dudley commanded.

There are several regional sub groups including the Carp's Tongue complex in the south east, the Llantwit-Stogursey tradition in south Wales, the Broadward complex in the Marches, the Heathery Burn tradition in the north and the Scottish Duddington, Covesea, and Ballimore traditions.

Welsh law was frequently used in the Marches in preference to English law, and there would sometimes be a dispute as to which code should be used to decide a particular case.

Marches written in 2 / 4 tend to be for the sake of the performer, as it is, for the most part, easier to read at faster tempos.

Some regional patterns in castle building can also be seen – relatively few castles were built in East Anglia compared to the west of England or the Marches ; this was probably due to the relatively settled and prosperous nature of the east of England and reflected a shortage of available serfs, or unfree labour.

After Henry II mottes ceased to be built in most of England, although they continued to be erected in Wales and along the Marches.

He claims Welsh origin and to be a man of the Welsh Marches ( marchio sum Walensibus ); He studied at the University of Paris, apparently around 1160 when Gerard la Pucelle was teaching there.

Peel towers ( also spelt pele ) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, intended as watch towers where signal fires could be lit by the garrison to warn of approaching danger.

The treaty of Norham ( 24 March 1550 ) established a truce between the nations for ten years ; and in 1552, the Wardens of the Marches consenting, the debatable land ceased to be matter for debate, the parish of Canonbie being annexed to Dumfriesshire, that of Kirkandrews to Cumberland.

However, following the Norman invasion of Wales in the 11th century, English law came to be practised in the parts of Wales conquered by the Normans ( the Welsh Marches ).

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin are the youngest branch of Franciscans, going back to 1525, when some Friars Minor in the Marches wanted to live a stricter life of prayer and poverty to be closer to the original intentions of St. Francis.

King Edward III considered it to be one of the strongest castles in the Northern Marches.

Typically, the double-reeded versions ( Marche, Abruzzo, Latium, Campania, southern Basilicata and parts of Sicily and southern Calabria ) will have a soprano chanter on the right and a bass chanter on the left ( called, respectively, " ritta " and " manga " — meaning ' right ' and ' left ' — in the Ciociaro tradition ) with an alto drone ( bordone being the generic name ); but as many as three drones, the other tuned above and below the basic chord can be used, or, in the case of the Marches tradition, no drones at all.

Some regional patterns in castle building can be seen-relatively few castles were built in East Anglia compared to the west of England or the Marches, for example ; this was probably due to the relatively settled and prosperous nature of the east of England and reflected a shortage of unfree labour for constructing mottes.

In France, motte-and-bailey castles were not built after the start of the 12th century, and mottes ceased to be built in most of England after around 1170, although they continued to be erected in Wales and along the Marches.

The Welsh Marches would be merged with the principality in 1534 under the Council of Wales and the Marches until all separate governance for Wales as an administrative entity was abolished in 1689.

In that same year, Richmond, as he came to be known, was granted several other appointments, including Lord High Admiral of England, Lord President of the Council of the North, and Warden of the Marches towards Scotland, the effect of which was to place the government of the north of England in his hands.

It can be found on their album The Baby Within Us Marches On.

The Civil War caused four equitable courts to be dissolved ; the Court of Star Chamber was formally dissolved in 1641, the Council of the North and Council of Wales and the Marches had their equity jurisdiction stripped by the same Act of Parliament, and the Court of Requests became invalid after the Privy Seal was invalidated by the outcome of the English Civil War, as it was dependant on the Seal for its authority.

The Four Day Marches Cross can be awarded in bronze, silver or gold, which may have a crown above the cross, together with enamelled arms.

The 90th Four Days Marches will always be remembered as " the march that lasted one only day ".