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Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water. Its church is a fascinating medieval survival, which somehow escaped the worst excesses of Victorian restorers.

The gardens are laid out on a site that slopes gently down towards Rope Walk and The Brook, offering a pleasant place in the centre of town in which to stroll or sit, and perhaps recover

Tucked away among trees by Pill Hill Brook, Monxton Church, with its shingle-faced belfry and broach spire perched on the gable, was rebuilt in early Victorian times.

Earlier in its life it had more publicity, as it is also known as Tennyson's brook.

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

The Brook Dam was probably so named in the 17th century when the lower portion of the Snail River was diverted by a dam as part of the major drainage works.

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water. Its church is a fascinating medieval survival, which somehow escaped the worst excesses of Victorian restorers.

Brook Street c1955 Bensington is Benson's proper name; it was once an ancient British city. A battle was fought here in 572 AD between the West Saxons and the Britons.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones. In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

The one constant is the bank, now NatWest, at the junction of Great Whyte and the High Street, built over the Bury Brook.

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

The lake in the foreground is used for fishing; it is fed by Wrinstone Brook, which flows through Dinas Powis to join the Cadoxton River.

On the ridge nearby is the source of the River Frome - that beautiful Dorset brook that crosses nearly forty miles of the county before reaching the sea.

This view looks towards the brook from behind the chestnut tree we can see to the left in No C433010.

Little Ann Village C1955 Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.

Thomas Hardy, John Keats and Rupert Brooke all spent time here, and English literature has benefited by their experiences. For all its popularity, Lulworth Cove remains an unspoiled scenic joy.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

John Keats spent some of his last days in England here, as did Rupert Brooke.

One of the many streams that cascade off the moor - this is the beginning of Mill Ghyll, which flows down Wells Road and then underneath Brook Street.

The village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.