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Alma Bridge spans the Sid at the point just before the river tumbles across a pebbled ridge into the sea.

John Wing's 1811 bridge replaced a medieval one built or rebuilt soon after 1224; the builders probably used stone from the demolished castle, which was destroyed or 'slighted' after a punishing siege

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Here we see St John's College Old Bridge, originally conceived by Wren, but brought into being in 1712 by Robert Grumbold.

This view of the riverside promenade looks past the Archbishop's Palace to Maidstone Bridge and the chimneys of the industrial area beyond.

A tram rattles across the old road bridge bound for Grangetown.

This is an interesting photograph showing all three bridges crossing the Runcorn Gap. Even now there are plans for another bridge which would probably cost around £123 million.

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

There were only two other bridges on British Railways that were longer than the Severn Bridge: the second Tay (10,711 ft) and the Forth (8296 ft).

In 1560 the Robert Lucas Trust was set up to establish and maintain bridges, highways and causeways in Shefford.

The River Trent at Burton is now crossed by three bridges: Burton Bridge, built in 1864, the iron Angelsey Bridge and the Stapenhill Viaduct, which is in fact a footbridge.

The East and West bridges cross the Derwent side by side. The narrow arched bridge was built in 1727 and stands above the battleground. The later bridge now carries the railway.

A view of O'Connell Street looking north with O'Connell Bridge over the River Liffey in the foreground.

We are looking down onto the old bridge with the castle in the centre left of the picture. This bridge has now been superseded by a modern version, although this one is still in use.

This was the latest of many wooden bridges to span the River Stour at this point on the main route from Essex (right) into Suffolk.

King John's bridge has straddled the Avon at Tewkesbury for some 800 years.

The completion of the road bridge in 1961 signalled the end of the Saltash Ferry.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

It was a ford which fixed the site of Belfast, but not long after the town was begun, a bridge crossed the river.

The 'longest and fairest' bridge in Cornwall crosses the upper part of the Camel estuary, seen here at high tide.