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Little girls pose for the cameraman on the ford at the Tillingbourne.

Starkey, Knight & Ford's brewery was in Tiverton, and their trademark black horses could at one time be seen all over Devon.

The ford and footbridge are in the centre of the estate village of Settrington, three miles east of Malton.

A fine view over the River Avon, with a horse cooling itself by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

In the background, a notice on the shop advertises a 20 hp Ford car for hire.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th- century resident whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

The 'shallow ford' owes its name to the Tillingbourne Stream that flows just beyond St Mary's Church (right), built in 1847, and then into the River Wey.

In very early times Fordingbridge was known simply as 'Forde' , a crossing point of the Avon since prehistoric times.

Roman remains abound in Dorset; many were excavated in the 20th century, including an impressive Roman Villa near this old fording place at Fifehead Neville.

In earlier times, before the construction of its many bridges, the Otter presented a formidable barrier to travellers, particularly when the river was in flood and its ford impassable.

Standing almost squarely on the spot once occupied by Beda's ford (on Town Bridge), the photographer has captured the essence of a leisurely lifestyle.

An ancient ford and footbridge, an abandoned cartwheel, and the splash of running water over a tiny weir—this delightful photograph of two stone cottages and their attractive gardens reminds us that the

This bridge, like the one at Bewdley, was designed by Thomas Telford; it replaced an old ferry and ford.

Seen from the west ramp of the ford, G H Hoare, Coach Building, Shoeing & General Smith, advertises his work, while a man fishes below the island where brown trout still swim against the flow.

Pebbles were once known locally as pobbles, and the ford on the River Otter was full of them - hence the name of the village.

It owes its name and its foundation to the five roads that meet in the town and the fact that at this point it was possible to ford the rivers Hit and Flit.

The town was founded on a ford over the River Aire, near Kirkstall Forge, where the monks of Kirkstall Abbey once smelted iron ore.

It was built in 1800, after the Gregs raised the height of the weir at Styal and destroyed the old ford that took the road over to Pownall Hall.

The name Clatford means 'ford where burdock grew'. 30 years before this photograph was taken, the first locally manufactured traction engine trundled through the village on its way to the Royal Agricultural

The ford that gave Allerford its name lies beside an ancient, two- arched packhorse bridge.

A farm van fords the river on the back road to Hinxton from Duxford.

Here, the Weir Hotel is offering 'Luncheons—Hovis' to the drivers of passing Fords, Austins and Jowett Javelins.

An ancient ford and footbridge, an abandoned cartwheel and the splash of water running over a tiny weir - this delightful photograph of stone cottages and attractive gardens reminds us that

This house was built in 1792 for John Baynes.