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In despair, his wife spent the night in a fruitless search amongst the marshes for him.

Standing on the fringes of the Norfolk marshes, Blakeney like Cley, once knew busier days.

In contrast to the flat marshes of the lower Bure, the upper reaches often have thick undergrowth and trees along the banks.

Pitsea lies to the north of Bowers Marshes.

Standing on the fringes of the Norfolk marshes, Blakeney like Cley, once knew busier days.

The road past St Mary's church originally took an indirect course to avoid a marshy area, but in 1801 the marsh was drained and a more direct road was built.

The Sussex Turnpike Trust was set up in 1749 to maintain the road from Hindhead Heath to Chichester with a tollgate at Kingsley Marsh (now Green).

The road past St Mary's church originally took an indirect course to avoid a marshy area, but in 1801 the marsh was drained and a more direct road was built.

In the middle ages the port was one of the Cinque Ports, before the sea turned to marshes. The castle was restored in the 1930s: the ivy has long gone.

Southwold Common stands between the town and the marshes, and is lined on its northern edge with a range of private dwellings.

Marsh Windmill is a large Fylde-type brick tower mill with four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Dated 1794, it worked until 1922.

The limitless flat salt marshes stretch out beyond the narrow channel.

The limitless flat salt marshes stretch out beyond the narrow channel.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached. Parkgate was a popular yachting centre.

Initially the village developed along a road constructed on a causeway across the marshes between the castle and a possible wharf near Bramber Bridge.

To the memorial's right is the half-timbered group of buildings housing the New Bridge Cafe and Marsh's Commercial College.

Looking across the Ypres Tower from the parish church roof, the marshes are much bleaker than now, with the Rother winding through the treeless flat land.

The links were created on the Morfa (marsh or sea brink), a tract of well-drained land from which the sea has receded.

Norfolk reeds are growing on the left of the river, while the right side shows the flat Halvergate marshes.

The church, situated on high ground above the river Blyth, is known locally as 'the Cathedral of the Marshes'.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

We now embark on a tour of the Moors or Levels, the vast flat lands of central Somerset, where great drains and canalised rivers keep the marshes at bay.

Rye, set on its sandstone isle rising from the flat fen of Romney Marsh, still presents something of a medieval picture, dominated by the great church of St Mary.

Towyn (or Tywyn) means both 'an extent of land' and 'a thing that shines', a good description of the sand and marsh around the town.