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Caption For Cropredy, The Lock C1960

The name 'cropredy' is thought to come from Old English - 'redy' meaning brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Kenilworth, Abbey Fields Swimming Pool C1965

Abbey Fields is dissected by Finham Brook and Inchford Brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

This village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Upper Clatford, The Village C1955

Note the sign on the telegraph pole on the right - 'telegrams may be telephoned.'

Caption For Upper Clatford, Village 1899

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook. The

Caption For Uttoxeter, Bramshall Road Recreation Ground C1965

Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1960

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook. The

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1965

Straddling Rothley Brook, the medieval bridge is a feature of this large village that has grown considerably since the last war.

Caption For Anstey, Pack Horse Bridge C1965

The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Caption For Milford, The Cross Roads C1960

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

Caption For Llanthony, The Priory, From The North West 1893

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

Caption For Llanthony, The Priory, From The North West 1893

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

Caption For Enfield, Whitewebbs Park, The Pond C1955

The focal point of Forty Hill in the 16th century was the great house of Elsynge, which lay between the site of Forty Hall and the Turkey Brook. The

Caption For St Neots, From The Air C1955

The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.

Caption For Manchester, Brooks Bank C1873

These are the premises of the bank run as Cunliffe Brooks & Co, one of Manchester's private banks.

Caption For Rochdale, Simpson Clough 1895

Cheesden Brook passes under Ashworth Road, flowing to the right to join Naden Brook as it leaves Carr, Gelder and Bamford Woods.

Caption For Nunney, From Bridge 1907

The church lies behind a huddle of dilapidated cottages lining the Nunney Brook; here, wool was washed during the busy years of the cloth trade.

Caption For Uttoxeter, The Hockley C1955

The Hockley brook was a haven for the local children, as there was no swimming pool in Uttoxeter.