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Many people avoided paying the tolls on the bridge by rowing coracles across the river. It was here, too, that a boy named Matthew Webb learnt to swim.

After the iron bridge was built, its trading area grew: it now attracted people south of the river, who previously would have used the market at Much Wenlock.

Another lost chapel is one thought to have been dedicated to St James at Lord's Mill Bridge, of which no trace remains.

The bridge over the River Avon at Ibsley, with its white water weir, wildfowl and waterside scenery, is a good place to halt if you are following that lovely river up from the sea.

Less than half a mile upstream from Bideford Bridge, it is close by the original river crossing. This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.

Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background.

In this view we see the largely rebuilt High Bridge buildings with the brickwork and stonework still looking fresh.

Once again, having crossed the bridge, we are back in that area of Cheshire that was once part of Lancashire until the county boundary changes of 1974.

This interesting picture shows the bridge over the Rother at the bottom of Adhurst Hill. The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711).

This small garden is to be found in Bridge End Gardens. The photograph was taken from a viewing platform and, bathed in sunlight, the neatly trimmed hedges are impressive.

The minor road off the B1249 rises with dwellings on either side, peaks and falls again to an old wooden bridge with rusted iron railings that crosses brackish water which eventually falls

These gardens were created in 1938 when the Frome from St Augustine's bridge was culverted.

The attractive Halfpenny Bridge is so named because of the charge to cross it.

Note the absence of road markings and the apparently low volume of traffic that enables motorists to park on the bridge itself. Picton Place is named after the Picton family, referred to later.

Lying about ten miles east of Hawes, Aysgarth is famous for a series of waterfalls on the River Ure, the upper of which can still be viewed from a 16th-century single-arch bridge.

In 1549, John Kett led his rebel peasant army from its camp on Mousehold Heath over this fine 14th-century bridge, only for his followers to be cut to pieces in the city.

This bridge over the River Usk is situated near the site of the old castle.

This thatched cottage is called, appropriately enough, Bridge Cottage.

In the background is Merrivale Quarry, granite from which has been used in many famous public buildings including the old London Bridge, now in Arizona.

The view looks down Cornforth Hill towards Bridge Street; the whitewashed building was the Oak Tree Inn.

Two little girls walk arm-in-arm across the tree-shaded ancient packhorse bridge which crosses Clapham Beck in the centre of the village.

We are looking towards Bridge Street and the River Barle. Across the river on the hillside is The Cottage, a mock-Tudor house with plaster pargetting standing amid rhododendrons.

The notice states that both the bridge and the island are private.