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Hartford lies between Huntingdon and St Ives, bordering on the Ouse.

Now really a suburb of Northwich, Hartford has long been a more desirable area in which to live, particularly in the past for the town's wealthier manufacturers.

A winter river scene with the church in the distance; the boathouse with a path beside it belongs to Hartford House.

Felsted had two watermills at the time of the Domesday survey, and it is likely that Felsted Mill and Hartford End Mill are on the same two sites.

The ford at Cartford Lane was replaced by a bridge (middle distance); its board reads 'Cartford Bridge Company Limited.

A small caravan site and the Cartford Hotel flank the approach to the Cartford toll bridge, which was built across the Wyre in 1831.

The main employer was Addis, the brush manufacturers, who came to Hertford in the 1920s when they took over the premises of the Hertford Steam Laundry Company.

Hertford Lock is not in quite such a rural setting today.

This view of the Crown & Anchor shows Dartford's narrow streets.

Dating back to 1284, Hertford College had fallen into decay by the middle of the 19th century, though its fortunes were later revived by Act of Parliament.

Before the building of the Dartford tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II bridge, the Tilbury ferry was an important means of crossing the Thames for motorists in this part of Essex.

Later on, in 1728, when returning from the market at Hertford, Thomas Adams was violently murdered in the High Street.

The Dartford Warbler is known to breed here, and the pool is also a favourite haunt of dragonflies.

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

Broadgate was always the hub around which Coventry revolved, and Hertford Street was once one of the main streets running into it, though it was constructed only in 1912.

The Dartford Warbler is known to breed here, and the pool is also a favourite haunt of dragonflies.

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

This is a truly historic photograph, which shows the lowest crossing of the river Thames (except for the new Dartford motorway bridge) on the day it opened in 1894.

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

This rather quaint view shows the then 'up to the minute' toll booths of the newly-opened Dartford Tunnel.