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The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway into the village is now reduced to a footpath.

Out of sight, screened by trees, is the parish churchyard and the Victorian church; to the south of the church stands the old font in a niche below a 13th-century arch from the old church

The magnificence of the church was rather spoilt by the 18th-century red brick tower with classical blank arches and windows (see photograph 35493), built after much of the medieval tower

Between them are the solid shapes of Sundial Cottage and Library Cottage, and No 11 with its gabled frontage above an arched doorway (centre right).

Behind the mini-van on the left, the Butchers Arms had replaced a much older half- timbered building damaged extensively by fire in 1939.

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges. The Anderton Lift created a much faster passage for boats and increased the tonnage of river traffic to 226,000 in 1913.

After a disastrous fire in 1174, the new choir was designed by William of Sens, a French master mason who was versed in the Gothic style of northern France, with its pointed arches and universal stone-built

It is thought that Macbeth may have lived at Inverness Castle, or used it as a base for operations against the Orcadians.The suspension bridge superseded a stone bridge of seven arches which was destroyed

The chancel arch and font date from this time, the tower is late 14th-century and the south aisle was added during a restoration of 1531.

This view is taken from the brick four-centred arch into Market Square. The brick footpath heads towards the porch which, with the south aisle, was added in 1870 to designs by H E Rumble.

This is a much changed view: the working barges have gone, to be replaced by ranks of houseboats.

This is a much more recent view of this district of Worthing. Nearby there is a large old cemetery and chapel, with many graves of the wealthy.

Here at Fleshwick, visitors can explore this superb natural arch.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

Here it can be seen at the end of the street, past the Lion Hotel and the arched entrance to the British Legion Club.

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

An inscription on the underside of the central arch reveals that the bridge was 'finished in the year 1813 by John Dyson, Engineer, Jesse Bushrod, Mason.` Inside the downstream parapet, an 1827

statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse, Copenhagen, has been situated on Round Hill since 1885, when it was brought from Hyde Park Corner in London where it had dwarfed the Constitution Arch

The second light stands a little way behind, in the town, a much taller tower modelled on the Pharos light of ancient Alexandria.

Not far from the cafe is the four-arch sandstone bridge over the Derwent, built in 1775 by York architect John Carr.

The arched footbridge gives access over the River Brett, which flows through the village.

This building replaced a much smaller church on the same site. The construction of the new St Augustine's began in 1865; dedication by the Bishop of Llandaff followed the next year.