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There is a large Iron Age hillfort at the end of Hascombe Hill's ridge a little south-east of the village.

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

Barrow-in-Furness sprang from a tiny hamlet in the 19th century to become the world's largest producer of iron and steel, and a major force in the world of shipbuilding.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

What is more likely is that it was taken at the time when the country needed scrap iron for munitions.

The Saracen's Head, with its ornate, wrought iron portico (right), was one of the city centre's leading hotels.

High Street and Sheep Street are now shopper-friendly, pedestrianised areas with trees and raised flowerbeds, reproduction Victorian lampposts, bench seating and wrought iron bus shelters.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here.

In the iron industry era there were smelting furnaces and forges here; Sussex marble was also dug in the area.

The three iron spans of this bridge (which is still in use today) weigh around 700 tons each, and the piers are sunk to a depth of 45ft into the solid rock of the river bed.

The Vauxhall Iron Works moved to Luton from its London base in 1905. Thereafter it enjoyed some considerable sporting success and built cars for the wealthy and influential.

Outside it stands a row of watering cans on a sheet of corrugated iron balanced between two barrels. Farther along are more barrels and boxes.

of the two hundred navvies engaged in building the Portsmouth Railway line were drinking here late one evening, when Donaldson attempted to enforce closing time, and was struck down by a blow from an iron

On the right is Robert Stephenson's tubular wrought iron railway bridge, which was opened in 1849.

On the other side of the road is the lamp-post which was first in the Market Square, with its black-painted cast iron base.

Designed by Thomas Kennard, the eight-pier viaduct was constructed by Charles Liddell, using castings from Falkirk and wrought iron from nearby Blaenavon.

Opposite the Old George Hotel is the premises of James Beach, pharmaceutical chemist and maker of the Poor Man`s Friend ointment, with iron merchants and supplier of sewing machines H N Cox

St Peter's Cottage, once a priest's house and now a restaurant, has an inglenook fireplace with a cast iron Sussex fireback of 1657.

ships were sold, releasing funds to allow BSC to order the 'Dynamic' from Harland & Wolff - she was the first vessel to be built at the Queen's Island Shipyard, and the last in the BSC fleet with an iron

Iron, coal, ochre and rock are worked by Freeminers in the Forest to this day.

All the wooden fences still stand today, although many of the cast iron railings have disappeared, probably as part of scrap metal collection during the two world wars.