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Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

The mechanisation of weaving in the early 19th century robbed the village of both its industry and population, and the hall, the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, was

Museum Terrace, just to the left of the iron bridge in New London Road, was built in the 1840s.

The ornate obelisk of 1763 commemorates a chapel that once stood on High Bridge.

London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers’ drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages. A dense procession of top-hatted gentlemen hurry along the pavement to their city offices.

The 32-arch, 470-yard-long bridge of character was built in 1864 to replace a medieval crossing of the Trent's flood plain, which featured in the Civil War during 1643.

Bakewell Bridge has coped with ever-increasing traffic for six centuries, and remains one of the finest 14th-century town bridges in the country.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's masterpiece of 1859 brought the mainline railway across the Tamar into Cornwall, and it still carries rail traffic today.

Pontrhydfendigaid means 'bridge of the blessed ford', and this is that bridge. By it is the village shop.

From the south bank, near Westminster Bridge, completed in 1862, this view shows the bell tower known universally by its great bell, Big Ben.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

This bridge over the River Rib was built by Charles Gray in October 1852 at a cost of £95. In 1994, it was found to be unsafe and was totally rebuilt.

Taken from the bridge, this view looks along a busy Embankment to Embankment Gardens in the distance with its tree-lined river bank.

Gulls forage for food in the frozen wastes.The ice has broken and the waters of the river released.

Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either

This shows the 2,253ft long bridge with a train heading north.

The memorial was appropriately sited at Bridge Foot, the scene of many battles in Warrington's past.

Beyond Walcot Parade is Cleveland Place, which forms a forecourt to Cleveland Bridge across the Avon.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

We are looking upstream from the centre of the 14th-century stone bridge across the Thames where it crosses Nag's Head Island.