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

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

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

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.

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

A superb study of the Long Bridge, taken at low tide. The iron supports of the railway bridge, just 25 years old at this time, are visible beyond.

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.

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

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!

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

His agent thought the rent of £10 an acre was too low, but the deal went through in 1869 and 178 acres were taken over.

The church has a 16th-century crenellated tower with gargoyles and low pinnacles, a clock and a peal of eight bells.

Continuing south-west, the route reaches North Curry, a village on the low ridge that separates West Sedge Moor from the Tone valley.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Pleasure steamers from Falmouth, such as the 'New Resolute' seen here, called to land passengers in rowing boats.

The town, now mercifully by-passed, has a remarkably complete High Street, considering the volume of traffic that used to choke it en route to the coast.

Sunlight, calm low water, boats, and a temporarily discarded mooring rope hanging from a stone jetty, exemplify that kind of minutiae which contribute towards the ideal picturesque photograph.

The footpath between the low hedge and the rendered bungalow (right) offers a short meander to the gates of Gopsal Park and Little Twycross.

Just beyond the Marine Hotel is the site of the Sidmouth Brine Baths, where visitors to the town could have massage and 'electrical treatment' - probably a low current passed through the

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.

The old town, quaint and picturesque, is situated on the low ground near the edge of the harbour, and as a matter of course, the streets are very narrow.

Further away from the waterfront are Victorian houses behind the low boundary walls. The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery.