Running through the heart of our community is Offas Dyke, one of the UK's premier walking and hiking paths.

Offas Dyke was built on the orders of the Mercian King Offa, who for a time held what historians would subsequently describe as Bretwalda over the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms - meaning his personal dominion, and that of the Mercians extended across the rest of the Kingdoms.

Offa ordered the dyke constructed as a barrier between his kingdom and the Welsh.

Although modern historical analysis using techniques such as radiocarbon dating has suggested that the dyke was began centuries before Offa and he simply expanded and refortified the earthworks.

The earthwork, which was up to 65 feet (20 m) wide (including its flanking ditch) and 8 feet (2.4 m) high, traversed low ground, hills and rivers. Today, it is a a 177-mile (285 km) footpaththat runs between Liverpool Bayin the north and the Severn Estuaryin the south.

Photo credit to By Rushton2010 based on Hel-hama - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29651919.