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The traffic level is remarkably low, and it is safe to ride a bicycle.

The shallow draught of the trow was essential along a river like this with its sand banks and low summer water levels.

On the left, the low railings belong to the Engineering Works, now Thurlow, Nunn & Standen.

This is a view over Low Town from about one hundred feet above the Severn.

About a hundred years later the low crossing tower was heightened to house a belfry, and the spire was added.

The Red and White bus disappearing in the distance was specially built for the area: it was one of the first double-decker buses for low bridges.

They are ten miles in length and a mile broad at low water, and they have been characterised as 'smooth as velvet, yet so firm that neither horse not man leave their imprint on them as they tread the strand

Further round to the east the road along the shore disappears under water at high tide, a fact which many first-time visitors discover to their cost if unwise enough to park on the road at low

Despite the impediment of Victorian dress, the young lady appears to be confident; in any case, if the worst happens, the water level is comparatively low!

scene as well as Jane Austen in 'Persuasion': 'Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and, still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low

Across the road to the left stands Low Hall. This building is thought to be a late 13th- to early 14th-century hall that was raised to a pele-tower during the 15th century.

The second cottage on the left in this typical row is, I believe, where my grandmother was born. She worked for the Garnett family of Low Moor.

They are now known as Archery Cottages; the thatch has been replaced by ties, and the low wall in front of them has been removed.

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

The Lydstep caverns are only accessible at low tide, with the exception of the Smuggler's Cave, which was probably so named because of the high incidence of smuggling along the rocky

Bolton-le-Sands is perched on a low rise that once overlooked the sea. Its former maritime associations are reflected in the name of the Blue Anchor.

On the corner of Low Road, leading to the King's Head, are houses called St Margaret and St Mary (centre left). The prominent jettied timber-framed building facing us is Waterloo House of c1540.

More trees obscure this view across the stream to Low Green, and Buckfast & Son's shop (behind the second tree from the right) has closed, but the buildings have changed little.

Middleham is famous for its racehorses, and this photograph of the Low Moor shows a string of horses ridden by flat-capped jockeys walking in a wide circle with the trainer supervising in the middle.

This whole beautiful stretch of the North Pembrokeshire coast is studded with small settlements like Abereiddy, where low, single-storied stone cottages squat in sheltered coves and on the exposed clifftops

Children play happily on the shore below the old mill, the long low building. Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again.

This later view of Anchor Head shows yet more developments on Birnbeck, including the construction of the low-water westward jetty, which allowed steamers to berth at any time or state of the tide.

Rows of bathing machines along the shoreline and in front of the low white cliffs demonstrate the popularity, and prevailing prudery, of immersion in sea-water among the Victorian visitors.

The gently lapping waves, resulting from low swell, indicate clearly how solid granite walls deflect the force of even a slight sea.