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This view looks south-westwards from Broad Ledge to Long Ledge (foreground) below Gun Cliff to the Guildhall (top right), the Fossil Depot beside Buddle Bridge and the Assembly Rooms (centre), with the

Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.

Lord Windsor, Chairman of Barry Docks and Railway Company, gave this road its name.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Acle is a popular centre for amateur yachtsmen, who come ashore to explore the area and visit the inns used by local rivermen.

A brick-built cottage on the lane leading to the broad has an unusual herringbone pattern on the ridge of its thatched roof.

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

As we leave the station, the first street we see is Dorridge Road.

The railway we can see here once ran from Sandgate to Sandling, but it was discontinued in 1931.

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

Next to it, the yacht has a deep hull, indicating that it is a sea-going boat not primarily intended for use on the broads.

The shop is baker, grocer and draper; as it was probably the only shop in the vil- lage, it needed to carry a broad range of goods.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

One of the most beautiful of the many lovely Broads churches is St Helens at Ranworth, a short walk from the staithe.

Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

It is a busy day for the small Ranworth Broad, with sailing boats and dinghies out as well as a large motor cruiser.

This is Post Office Lane, and the village post office was located in the cottage on the left for many years up until 1966.

Bala`s elegant main street is lined with trees and is unusually broad.

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.