No flags, no signs, no passports needed: what it’s like to cross Britain’s strangest land border

YouTuber Tom Thornton travels to a British territory 2,000 miles from the UK to learn about history (Picture: Tom Thornton)

Standing on the edge of a cliff, the sun scorches my neck as I take in the scene around me.

To my left, an ancient amphitheatre stands on the hilltop. To my right, ruins of former Gladiator houses and thousand-year-old mosaics.

A quick Google Maps check is in order. At first glance, anyone would assume I’m on a history tour of Kourion, an ancient Greek city-state on the outskirts of Limassol, Cyprus’s second city.

But technically, I...