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Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge. It was the final station along the scenic route from Teesside to Whitby.

The bust on the plinth in the foreground is of Creighton Hutchinson, a local doctor and benefactor, who died in 1927.

This is the third of four bridges in this area. The furthermost crosses a ruined leat, a channel carrying water to a nearby mill.

Upstream of Halfpenny Bridge, Stonehouse creek used to run as far as Pennycomequick, but was progressively filled over the years.

The town is almost completely surrounded by the River Severn, so that most visitors to Shrewsbury enter it over one of its bridges. The English Bridge was built in 1774 by John Gwynne.

The passenger launch SS 'Queen Elizabeth' has almost beached to disembark and take on board passengers. A gangplank has been laid to the foreshore.

Berwyn is a lonely spot west of Llangollen, where the half-timbered Chain Bridge Hotel and the station on the old Llangollen-Corwen railway stand beside the River Dee as it enters a small gorge.

Where London's other bridges are dignified and utilitarian, Tower Bridge, with its 'daring majesty' cocks a snook at Victorian formality.

The first recorded wooden bridge was built in 1583, and was destroyed during the siege of York. Two more were built after one another; the second was washed away by floods.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

The iron bridge (demolished in 1978) brought the line from Exeter, and did not run parallel to the road bridge.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below

Known locally as Dinkley Bridge, this elegant suspension bridge across the River Ribble was opened on 10 October 1951.

Before this sandstone bridge was built in 1686, horses and carts crossed the Eden at the 'wath' or ford, which was the longest over the river, hence the name Langwathby.

This view of the bridge was taken from near Islip House, on the west bank. In 1795, the medieval bridge was seriously damaged by floods and five of its nine arches were washed away.

Gulls forage for food in the frozen wastes.The ice has broken and the waters of the river released.

London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers' drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages. A dense procession of top-hatted gentlemen hurry along the pavement to their city offices.

Nowadays the bank is more formalised and the trees are fewer than in this view, which looks along the river bank north-east to the suspension bridge.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

This is Thomas Telford's iron bridge, crossing the River Severn at its junction with the River Avon.

The wooden road bridge had to be replaced in 1926: it was rotting, and traffic was becoming heavier.