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Seemingly indifferent to its position beside the busy thoroughfare connecting Cardiff and Cowbridge, Church Hall House (pictured) stands testament to a romanticised Victorian vision of a pre-industrial

The floating bridge crossed the Medina from West to East Cowes. Notice the wharves and docks in the background.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

Cowbridge can trace its origins as far back as Roman times, when a small fort was built here.

In the background are the 'stepped' houses on Port Hill, which leads from Cowbridge up to Bengeo.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn.The Brown Cow public house is on the right.The village is 400ft above sea level.

In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn. The Brown Cow public house is on the right, and the Black Bull Hotel can just be made out further down the road.

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

In the 14th century there are accounts of crops of oats, wheat, and barley being grown locally, and local livestock included cows and sheep.

Corbridge is a small town with a traumatic history.

But it is the mills and factory chimneys at Bowbridge, mostly now demolished, which make the photograph interesting. In 1890 the canal (in the foreground) still carried some traffic.

In the foreground is Bowbridge, the southern suburb of Stroud, with the chimneys of several small textile mills clearly visible; the main town is prominent on the hillside beyond.

The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse. Here stands the exquisite Custom House of 1683, with its graceful classical-style facade.

The Red and White bus disappearing in the distance was specially built for the area: it was one of the first double-decker buses for low bridges.

Outside Holroyd's shop and post office is a sign warning of a low bridge ahead. Opposite this leafy corner was the vicarage, now a private house.

East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today.

The bridge crosses the canalised Witham, and in the distance is Stone Bow arch. The obelisk on the bridge and most of the buildings have since been replaced.

There have since been a few comparatively minor changes to the structure, most notably the conversion of the garage doors into a double bow window.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge. Boating is still a popular pastime on Windermere, which is England's largest lake.