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Wildersmouth Beach - named after Wilder Brook - was the main beach before the cutting of the tunnels.

It was here in the mid 1800s that Dr William Penny Brookes practised.

The house is called Brook House; there is an inscription above the crest over the porch (just to the right of the road sign) that dates the building to 1574.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street. In recent years this has been considerably modernised.

Middle, Nether and Over Wallop line the Wallop Brook that joins the River Test above Bossington.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

Straddling Rothley Brook, the medieval bridge is a feature of this large village that has grown considerably since the last war.

Lyons Cakes and Brooke Bond Tea are among the items advertised outside the shop. Note the cars of the period, including the Jaguar parked at the side of the building.

The Lulle Brook in the view is the third and southernmost channel.

The Kettle Brook 1898 A short walk from The Harrow pub at Steep brings you to this delightful spot at the heart of hilly East Hampshire, sometimes described as 'Little Switzerland'.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

Finchingfield combines a water supply (Finchingfield Brook) with a defensible site (Church Hill). What made sense to Saxon settlers has made it Essex`s most photographed village.

Ewelme Brook, seen on the right, rises in nearby springs; having crossed under the road, it flows on to provide the water for the cress beds we can see in photograph E59029, above.

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

The Mill C1960 Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

In the 1820s Dobcross possessed two banks (Buckley & Co and Harrop & Co), while Delph supported an agent for the Genuine Tea Co (John Brook), an attorney (Jonas Ainley), and an auctioneer (Timothy Bradbury

Houses in the village today include April Cottage, Brook Cottage, Kiddles, Little Beck, Pound Cottage, Pound House, Trout Cottage and Rowan Cottage.

The setting is very pretty too, with the Downs rising on one side and the Amberley Wild Brooks, a haven for wildlife, on the other.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

The hotel grounds are impressive too, with woodland and the large mill pond which the Websters created to increase the power supply of Plants Brook.

Entering the village from Clitheroe, the road dips to cross Heys Brook. Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

The name means 'the clearing where the waters meet', the waters being the Calder and the Cragg Brook.