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This settlement commanded the lowest fording point on the River Medway, and here, in 455, the invading Jutes under Hengist defeated the native forces led by Vortigern.

This photograph was taken from the junction of the High Street with Bridge Street. The dominant buildings are of the early 1900s, complete with a fine set of chimney stacks.

In this view, looking north-east from the bridge on the south bank of the Ouse, the Swan Hotel is seen without ivy.

Also known as St Sampson's, Golant on the west bank of the Fowey was cut off from the main estuary, save for a bridge, by the embankment of the Lostwithiel to Fowey railway in 1869.

Yet upriver, above London Bridge, were the more modest colliers, whose simple barges, loaded by man-power, carried consignments on to Thameside towns, for shipment to the Midlands and the north through

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

The Ministry of Works had the moat dug out again in 1909-10, and discovered Henry VIII's bridge.

Duplicating an earlier shot from 1897, this view is looking westwards up East Street from the River Asker and East Bridge.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

A pedestrian footbridge known as Haugh Bridge on the left offers some protection on the sharp bend, and a strongly flowing stream runs under the road at this point.

Duplicating an earlier shot from 1897, this view is looking westwards up East Street from the River Asker and East Bridge.

At Acle, on the river Bure, wherries and sailing craft glide by under the old bridge, their masts lowered.

The Angel Hotel, an old coaching inn, can be seen on the left, and Collier's hardware store stands beside the bridge.

It is nearly 20 years later, and the area to the right is now completely built up.

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901).

This was among the 'horror pictures' used by the land agent John Cripwell in order to encourage Lord Antrim and the council of the National Trust to buy two thousand of acres from Lyme Regis to

Our second tour starts three miles west of Amersham in the delightful village of Little Missenden which grew up along the south bank of the River Misbourne and separated from Amersham by the parkland

The River Don flows under Station Lane bridge on the Duke of Norfolk's land. Cottages in the village date from 1845; just to the right was the old Forge Mill.

A fun fair can be seen in the foreground, and the beach entertains many visitors in this view of old Saltburn, with the Ship Inn just visible over the shoulder of Cat Nab (right).

Our photographer is standing on the bridge over the lock which separates the dock from the Lancaster Canal basin.

This fine seven-arch Grecian-style bridge over the River Don was built in 1850; it linked the village to Warmsworth, and replaced the ferry service.

Since the early 1700s the Avon has been divided into two halves at Evesham – the Upper and Lower – which are owned and managed separately.