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Ripon is the farthest north a barge can travel without being removed from the water.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as

This mill at Commercial End with its attached buildings started to decay in the 1930s, and by 1955 the last barge was sunk in the old fishpond.

As can be seen from the narrow water here, navigation is not what it was, although barges traded up to the cement works here right to the 1950s.

Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.

The Haling Path, from which this picture is taken, is the path along the river used by horses pulling barges.

The water seethes with punts, and one of the college barges is in the distance.

For its first 2 miles, it was a barge canal - as seen here.

A plywood mill imported timber from Africa, which came to the canal from Avonmouth docks by barge, as we can see here.

The towpath on the right bank was used by the horses which once pulled the barges.

Here we see barges clamouring at the lock gates.

The town's nautical connections are clearly seen is this early 20th-century view of the creek, crowded with sailing barges and boats.

A century ago, sailing barges from Plymouth once navigated almost to the bottom of the lane.

From here, the grain barges would travel to London and return with cargoes of coal, helping to make Ware prosperous from the 18th century onwards.

Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

The barge in the photograph, its sail furled, is loaded with straw.

Now defunct, it originally carried barge-towing horses to the opposite towpath; later it became more of a leisure ferry to Cliveden House on the plateau above.

It was also known as 'the Barge River' for a time.

Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

The shallow-draught Thames sailing barge aground on the sands dominates this photograph, taken from the foot of the Elizabethan stone jetty.

From here anything up to a 1000 tons a day was taken by barge to mills along the reaches of the upper Severn.

One of the sailing barges that used to work the coast and the River Orwell is laid up at the water's edge.