Borsetshire Helen Titchener in the programme. Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series "The Archers". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where "The Archers" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and
Ambridge Area School District system. For the 2009-10 funding year, Ambridge Area School District received a state grant of $42,580 for the program. In 2010, Governor Edward Rendell eliminated the grants to students. Among Pennsylvania's 500 public school districts, graduation requirements widely vary. Ambridge Area School Board has determined that a pupil must earn 22.5 credits to graduate, including: a required class every year in math, English, social studies, science, Physical Education and electives. The high school is not one of 37 Pennsylvania public high schools that require students take a personal finance course in order to graduate in 2012. By law, all Pennsylvania