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To the north-west of the New Forest is the peaceful little town of Fordingbridge, named after the ancient ford and medieval bridge which facilitate a passage across the River Avon at this point.

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

The first bridge was built in 1806, but it collapsed in 1881 and travellers had to resort to the original ford until the present structure was opened two years later.

Pontrhydfendigaid means 'bridge of the blessed ford', and this is that bridge.

A town grew up around this ford over the River Coly, a mayor was elected, and a cattle fair was held.

Widford ('Willow Ford') was finally swallowed by Chelmsford in 1935.

Triumph Heralds and Ford Consuls were the cars of the day.

Carey & Lambert's Austin garage (centre right) has long since gone, as has the Chandler's Ford School seen in the distant centre of the photograph.

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

The Ford Popular car seems to want all the road.

This view of Allerford's much photographed 15th-century packhorse bridge and ford looks much the same today.

Now really a suburb of Northwich, Hartford has long been a more desirable area in which to live, particularly in the past for the town's wealthier manufacturers.

This spot, where the road west from Clitheroe crosses the Ribble, was once known as Eadsford, the bridge from which the photograph was taken being built over an ancient ford.

Howley is one of Warrington's oldest districts, with a simple Norman castle standing guard over the ancient ford at Latchford.

At Wadebridge the Camel is so fast-flowing that it is said that there were once chapels on each bank by the ford where travellers prayed for a safe crossing.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

The cars are an MG Magnette, a Riley Kestrel and a Ford Anglia.

The Ford of Guildford was here, and still existed until 1760 when the channel was deepened for navigation.

Triumph Heralds and Ford Consuls were the cars of the day.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

It is also worth noting that all the cars seen here in Fountain Street - an Austin A40, a P4 Rover, a Morris 1000 Traveller, an Austin 1100, two Minis and a Ford Anglia approaching - are British-built.

It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.