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A pleasure cruiser has lowered its mast to enable it to pass under the stone and brick bridge with its wide central arch and two pointed side arches.

Newby Bridge, spanning the River Leven, is the highest bridging point before Lake Windermere. It dates from the 16th century, and formed part of the turnpike route from Kendal to Ulverston.

Another of Oxford's much-loved landmarks is the Hertford College Bridge, or the Bridge of Sighs as it is otherwise known.

Trams are no longer crossing the bridge at the time of this photograph, but cyclists and pedestrians are well in evidence, and cars have now started to appear.

This graceful arched bridge over the River Frome has wooden rails, which still guard the road.

Here we see the Old Bridge just before its replacement by the present bridge; its ironwork superstructure cantilevered the footways out over the river.

This is a classic view of Knaresborough from the road bridge over the River Nidd, here filled with pleasure boats.

The first bridge was built in 1771 and a settlement soon grew up around it.

The new road bridge was built by the renowned engineering firm of Dorman Long of Middlesbrough, who also built the Sydney Harbour bridge.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

The park proved so popular that a further extension was created across the river and linked by a new bridge opened in 1911 to commemorate the coronation of George V - hence the name, Coronation

The park proved so popular that a further extension was created across the river and linked by a new bridge opened in 1911 to commemorate the coronation of George V - hence the name, Coronation

The iron bridge of c1880 replaced a medieval stone bridge. The Waveney forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, where the boys are fishing.

Looking downstream, below the narrow Essex Bridge, this iron bridge was a continuation of one over the canal, built to allow residents of Shugborough Hall access to the village by horse

In 1779 Abraham Darby II's Coalbrookdale Ironworks cast the ribs of this, the world's first iron bridge.

In 1908, the view of the town looking back under the bridge was unobstructed.

This finely-composed study shows the Afon Bowydd, the road bridge, the railway bridge, the ranks of terraces of Blaenau, and the mountains beyond.

A view across the town taken from above the Tilmore railway bridge.

The Thames is now flowing into London proper, and we reach Hammersmith, with its monumentally-scaled iron bridge.

Brunel's celebrated masterpiece across the Tamar estuary made the first direct rail link between Cornwall and the rest of England when it was opened by Prince Albert in May 1859.

Beside the railway viaduct is the suspension road bridge, which opened in 1961.

The tide here is fierce, roaring up and down at several knots. Under the right-hand section of the bridge, the swivelling mechanism can be seen.

A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”