The Maelor is an area of north-east Wales along the border with England. It is now entirely part of Wrexham County Borough. The name Maelor is an old Welsh word: it can be translated as "land of the prince", from mael ("prince") and llawr.
Medieval commotes of Wales, with Maelor, only covering English Maelor in the north-east.
The England–Wales border, sometimes referred to as the Wales–England border or the Anglo-Welsh border, runs for 160 miles (260 km) from the Dee estuary, in the north, to the Severn estuary in the south, separating England and Wales.
The River Dee marking the border between Farndon, England, to the left and Holt, Wales, to the right
Bilingual "Welcome to Wales" sign
Bilingual "Welcome to England" sign
The approximate limit of coin-minting tribes in south Britain, and the limits of the campaigns of Claudius and Aulus Plautius.