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Woodbury Common is crowned by the massive Iron Age hill-fort of Woodbury Castle, visible from miles around and one of the best viewpoints in Devon.

Wharf Road is now a busy thoroughfare, the harbour wall a sturdy granite breakwater crowned with iron railings and tall street lamps.

This sea-port at the mouth of the Nedd derived its importance from its docks and from its steel and iron works.

These Edwardian ladies are looking at the Iron Age cemetery that was discovered here in 1900.

Old Sarum was originally an Iron Age fort with earth ramparts. The Normans fortified the existing site using local and occasionally unstable building materials.

Not so much a castle as a huge castellated mansion, Cyfarthfa stands near Merthyr Tydfil and was built in 1825 for Robert Thomas Crawshay, a wealthy iron-master.

This wonderful hand-operated water pump is on display under the market cross. It needed the strong iron-clad solid wooden wheels in order to travel over the cobbled streets of the town.

The Square is the natural focus of this former iron-mining town on the western fringe of Ennerdale and the Lake District hills.

Another landslide in 1858 demolished an iron smelting works.

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

Stourpaine stands below the Dorset summit of Hod Hill, with its Iron Age hillfort overlooking the River Stour below.

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

The road descends to the elegant 1810 cast-iron Tickford Bridge: the oldest surviving still in regular vehicular use.

Note the then- fashionable straw hats, and the wrought iron frame protecting the wooden signpost by the lady on the left.

The distant buildings were part of the Cattle Market, which had occupied the site since 1880 - its place now taken, ironically, by Chelmsford's deeply unattractive covered market.

Perched above Llangollen, this ancient fortification, whose name translates roughly as 'castle of the fort of the crow', dates from the Iron Age; medieval fortifications were added later, possibly

The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

The iron footbridge spanning Valley Road can be clearly picked out to the left of and below the Grand Hotel.

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

Broadway and its continuation, the High Street, almost certainly follow the line of an ancient trackway that crossed the River Itchen during the Iron Age.

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

It exported copper, iron, slate, barley, bobbins, gunpowder and leather all over the Empire.

This picture gives us a good view of the old Wearmouth, or Sunderland, iron bridge.