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A town grew up around this ford over the River Coly, a mayor was elected, and a cattle fair was held. Such prosperity did not last, and Colyford had declined by the 18th century.

Widford ('Willow Ford') was finally swallowed by Chelmsford in 1935. St Mary's Church had been totally rebuilt in the 19th century.

Triumph Heralds and Ford Consuls were the cars of the day.

Carey & Lambert's Austin garage (centre right) has long since gone, as has the Chandler's Ford School seen in the distant centre of the photograph.

By the 1950s, it was becoming apparent that Chelmsford had a traffic problem: these Ford Consuls and Austin A35s, among others, had seen to that.

Newton Poppleford takes its name from the round stones, or popples (like the pobbles of Budleigh Salterton), that abound in the area; it was a fording place over the Otter for centuries

An old Ford Prefect and a motor scooter help to date the view.

In 1586 the Elizabethan dramatist John Ford was baptised here.

The name Clatford means 'ford where burdock grew'. 30 years before this picture was taken, the first locally manufactured traction engine trundled through the village on its way to the Royal Agricultural

The Ford Popular car seems to want all the road.

This view of Allerford's much photographed 15th-century packhorse bridge and ford looks much the same today. The guesthouse to the right now has a public bar.

At Wadebridge the Camel is so fast-flowing that it is said that there were once chapels on each bank by the ford where travellers prayed for a safe crossing.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

The cars are an MG Magnette, a Riley Kestrel and a Ford Anglia.

Now really a suburb of Northwich, Hartford has long been a more desirable area in which to live, particularly in the past for the town's wealthier manufacturers.

This spot, where the road west from Clitheroe crosses the Ribble, was once known as Eadsford, the bridge from which the photograph was taken being built over an ancient ford.

Howley is one of Warrington's oldest districts, with a simple Norman castle standing guard over the ancient ford at Latchford.

The Ford of Guildford was here, and still existed until 1760 when the channel was deepened for navigation. St Nicolas church, built 1874-6, stands on the opposite side of the river.

Triumph Heralds and Ford Consuls were the cars of the day.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

It is also worth noting that all the cars seen here in Fountain Street - an Austin A40, a P4 Rover, a Morris 1000 Traveller, an Austin 1100, two Minis and a Ford Anglia approaching - are British-built.

It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.