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The line spread from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier-475 miles in all. On such a long line the nature of the terrain varied considerably. the northern part of the front, in Belgium and in France as far south as the Somme was held by the British. Here was to be found some of the worst terrain of all and conditions in the British trenches were often nightmarish. The line began at Nieuport on the coast and then ran along the flooded Yser to Dixmude. From there it ran around the notorious Ypres Salient and across the French frontier north-west to Armentieres. the German line held the higher ground which gave them a tactical advantage. info taken from:Eye Deep In Hell -Trench Warfare in WW1 by John Ellis/ Johns Hopkins University Press

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