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This photograph was taken from above the town of Marazion; the view shows clearly how the famous Mount is reached by a causeway at low tide.

This stretch of the pretty little River Windrush, the collection of low stone bridges, and a fine village of Cotswold stone, all combine to make a memorable day out.

Chartham occupies a low-lying site about a large green. Here we see the River Stour flowing through the village. The river has at various times proved indispensable to local industry.

The low porticoes have granite pillars and the stone-built design offers an insight into architectural practices of the era.

There is also a Low Hall at Steeton.

On the right the low wall is in front of the Congregational church, now demolished. Several of the houses have later façades. The central one is where Thomas Gainsborough lived in the 1750s.

The low two-storeyed rendered building on the left in the middle distance is the 16th-century, timber-framed Saracen's Head. Here, in May 1646, Charles I spent his last night of freedom.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Dunwick Creek, on which Walberswick lies, runs from the River Blythe and virtually dries at full low

The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary

Hunstanton grew out of the hamlet of Hunstanton St Edmund, sited low on the cliffs and owned by the Le Strange family of the Hall.

The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife.

It is still a well-known restaurant in this low- lying fenland area.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

This is what children of all ages like best: fishing about in the rock pools at low tide.

The following year the pier was commissioned; it was soon extended so that vessels could use it at low water.

Another view of Low Row, showing the Post Office and the Methodist Chapel on the right.

Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

Despite the shingle, patches of sand uncovered at low tide made the beach a popular attraction.

A low mound is all that remains of the castle that gave the village its name.

The low wall on the extreme left had been a pound - an overnight stopping-point for animals being driven to Chelmsford's livestock market.

This fine view of St Mildred's Bay shows how little built up it was in the early 1890s. Note the two bathing machines on the left under the low chalk cliffs.

Children play in the River Swale when it is very low after a summer drought, but it is a very treacherous river which rises very quickly if heavy rain falls in Swaledale, and it has claimed