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This beautiful old bridge still stands next to the ford, and although often called a packhorse bridge, it was probably built to allow the priors to travel between St Stephens and St Thomas; hence its more

This beautiful old bridge still stands next to the ford, and although often called a packhorse bridge, it was probably built to allow the priors to travel between St Stephens and St Thomas; hence its more

The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper

The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper

Though it conjures up images of smugglers, this hidden cove was probably once called 'Redemen' (pebble ford).

The children's clothing and the 1950s Ford make this a real period piece.

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

Goring was an important settlement in prehistoric times, and it was here at the ford that the famous Ridgeway and Icknield Way joined forces.

This house was built in 1792 for John Baynes. It is a modest Palladian house designed by Henry Flitcroft, his first commission. The wings are additions of the 1800s.

The bridge is mentioned in documents dating back to the reign of Henry III, and probably replaces the old Roman ford.

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

Sidford's 12th-century packhorse bridge was built because the ford in question was proving difficult for horses; only the north parapet remains of the original structure.

The ford at Cartford Lane was replaced by a bridge (middle distance); its board reads 'Cartford Bridge Company Limited. Speed Limit 10 mph'! On the immediate right is the Cartford Hotel.

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.

Here we see a vanished scene.Two draught horses are led over the old bridge by the ford on the river Chelmer.The photographer appears to have left his car parked up the road on the left and walked

A Ford Cortina and a Vauxhall, together with a Morris delivery van can be seen on the road.

The street scene has a range of 1950s vehicles, including a Morris van, and Hillman, Austin and Ford cars.

Salford was an area of Blackburn; the name derives from 'salix (willow tree) ford'. This is where the old pack horse trail to Accrington and the east crossed the River Blakewater in a shallow ford.

This is a quintessentially mid 1960s scene: a Ford Anglia, a Mary Quant haircut, a cigarette machine.

Worcester has always had a very close relationship with the River Severn, from early times when the first community grew up around an ancient ford.

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

Three mallard ducks purposefully traverse the shallow ford across this little stream which flows on to join the River Thames.

The original crossing here was a ford, probably used since Bronze Age times. The present bridge bears a plaque inscribed 'County Bridge 1792'.

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.