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One of these burhs was at Totnes, built on a high spur overlooking the ford on the Dart.

The name 'Clatford' means 'ford where burdock grew.'

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.

But it is curious to note that every car captured here - Ford, Vauxhall, Morris, Austin, Riley, Wolseley - was made in Britain.

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

This charming photograph shows two lads and a girl pulling a handcart carrying metal milk churns over the ford across the beck in Redmire, a village situated in mid Wensleydale.

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

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

The original crossing here was a ford, probably used since Bronze Age times.

The name 'Clatford' means 'ford where burdock grew.'

A father and his son seem to be skimming stones in the right foreground on the beach, which probably marks the spot where the 'full ford' of the village's name once existed.

This long-gone railway (1903 - February 1955) and its demolished viaduct, played an important part in the preparations for D Day, bringing material and troops to their embarkation

The motor car is well provided for in this picture, which looks down the High Street to the Abbey gateway.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

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.

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.

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

Adjacent to the former King's Mill, the lane leads via the Green to the ford of the River Whitewater.

By the 1950s, it was becoming apparent that Chelmsford had a traffic problem: these Ford Consuls and Austin A35s, among others, had seen to that.

Newton Poppleford takes its name from the round stones, or popples (like the pobbles of Budleigh Salterton), that abound in the area; it was a fording place over the Otter for centuries

An old Ford Prefect and a motor scooter help to date the view.

In 1586 the Elizabethan dramatist John Ford was baptised here.