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Barley and fuel for the furnaces were brought to Stortford by water, and latterly by rail.

Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry

By this time the Vaults have disappeared to make way for the Barley Mow.

East Anglia has a long tradition for growing malting barley, and Ipswich had a number of maltings.

This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.

The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,

The fine lines of Bisley Church show that this is another village that earned its wealth from the wool trade, its magnificent spire declaring to the neighbourhood the pride of its benefactors - the wool

The old Barley Mow public house was based in the last building on the left.

The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.

Bisley's church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 13th century, and it has a 15th-century porch believed to be made from a single oak.

We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

On the south bank of the river is the Barley Mow, which is featured in Three Men in a Boat.

There are still louvered windows on the ground floor, remnants of the time when the building was a malting with fires beneath the upper floors to help the barley laid out there to ferment.

Local thatch was originally made of wheat, rye or barley straw, but now longer- lasting reed is often used.

The main cargoes brought into Ipswich were grain, barley, coal and timber.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

The church exterior is of Bisley stone, while that used for the interior walls, most of the pulpit and the base of the font, comes from Painswick.

There is another village in Bisley - that of the clubhouses and mobile homes found at the National Rifle Association's ranges.

Built in 1561 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the half-timbered Barley Mow Inn is the one constant factor in Warrington's old Market Place.

Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry

In 1908 the CWS came to Birtley, where it opened a tinplate works.

This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.

The Earl of Huntingdon lived nearby, and the village gets the other half of its name from his association with barley farming.

Today so much of East Anglia's beautiful countryside is in the hands of more exploitative 'barley barons'.