### Clue: No rule getting hitchhiker to disembark in border area (14)
### Answer: NORTHUMBERLAND 
 ### Explanation: Definition: border area
 NO + R(abbrev. for "rule") **plus**(getting) THUMBER(what you might call a hitchhiker/one who uses his/her thumb to signal) + LAND(to disembark from a plane or ship on to, well, land).
Defn: … on the English side of the border with Scotland.