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The '''Lost Lands of Wales''', a minor{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}} political idea of the mid 1960s, called into question the status of areas along the east side of the ] which its proponents regarded as Welsh. The idea was propounded by the ''Lost Lands Liberation League'', and related to parts of the counties of ], ], ] and ].

==History==
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The ], administered from ], was initially established in 1472 by ] to govern the lands held under the Principality of Wales which had become directly administered by the English crown following the ] in the 13th century.<ref name=EnglishLaw>William Searle Holdsworth, "A History of English Law," Little, Brown, and Company, 1912, pg. 502</ref>

Some Marcher lordships were added to adjoining English counties: ], ], ] and part of ] were incorporated into Shropshire; ], ], ] and most of ] were included in Herefordshire; and that part of ] east of the ] was included in ].

The Council of Wales, based at ], was reconstituted as the ], with statutory responsibilities for the whole of Wales together with, initially, ], Shropshire, Herefordshire, ] and ]. The ] was exempted in 1562, and Cheshire in 1569.<ref name=wjec></ref><ref></ref> The Council was eventually abolished in 1689, following the "]" which overthrew ] (VII of Scotland) and established ] (William of ]) and ] as king and queen.

===English and Welsh boundaries ===
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The Marches remained outside the shire system, and nominally outside the control of the English monarchy, until the first ] was introduced in 1535 under ]. This, and a further Act in 1542, annexed Wales to ] and created a single state and legal ], commonly referred to as ]. The powers of the marcher lord-ships were abolished, and their areas formed into new counties, or amalgamated into existing ones.

The boundary between England and Wales, which has existed ever since, was effectively fixed. In the border areas, five new counties were created - Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire - and Flintshire gained some additional territory. However, several of the marcher Lordships were incorporated in whole or in part into English counties. The lordships of Ludlow, Clun, ] and part of Montgomery were incorporated into Shropshire; and ], ], ] and most of ] were included in Herefordshire. According to John Davies:<ref name=davies>John Davies, ''A History of Wales'', Penguin, 1993, {{ISBN|0-14-028475-3}}</ref>

<blockquote>Thus was created the border between Wales and England, a border which has survived until today. It did not follow the old line of Offa's Dyke nor the eastern boundary of the Welsh dioceses; it excluded districts such as Oswestry and Ewias, where the Welsh language would continue to be spoken for centuries, districts which it would not be wholly fanciful to consider as ''Cambria irredenta''. Yet, as the purpose of the statute was to incorporate Wales into England, the location of the Welsh border was irrelevant to the purposes of its framers.</blockquote>

The ] later abolished several ]s. One of these, ], was an exclave of Monmouthshire between Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

Until Welsh Disestablishment in 1920 the ] covered parts of north-west Shropshire. The parishes transferred to the Diocese of Lichfield were:
Criftins, Hengoed, Kinnerley, Knockin,Llanyblodwell, Llanymynech, Melverley, Morton, Oswestry, St
Martins, Selattyn,Trefonen, Weston Rhyn and Whittington

==Lost Lands Liberation League==
The '']'' was reportedly a minor group in the 1960s claiming to recover the 'Lost Lands' for Wales.{{cn|date=August 2014}} Some Welsh nationalist organisations have campaigned on the issue,{{clarify|date=August 2014}} although ] does not. The group is associated with ].{{source needed|date=January 2015}}

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