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Our first rural tour heads eastwards, skirting to the north of the Pevensey Levels, those great marshes largely drained during the Middle Ages, and following the road that heads for Ninfield

Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.

Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

Encroaching sands and developing salt marsh put paid to both the shipping and sun-worshipping trades, and today Parkgate serves as a pleasant commuter town.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

The Lords, Bailiff and Jurats of Romney Marsh used to hold their annual lunch there, and turned a blind eye to any smuggling activities.

Jabez Goode was an interesting man who lived in Burgh le Marsh in Victorian times.

The row of four whitewashed cottages in the foreground leads up to the Vicarage Lane turning on the right; the lane crosses the river about 200 yards north of the Overflow, a weir at Waterford Marsh.

This photograph was taken from Marsh Lane in Rowde. The original lock gates were all in oak. The metal gates in the foreground were possibly a trial model made by Great Western Railway.

Cliffe perches at the end of the long chalk ridges, overhanging the marshes of the Thames. It was formerly an important place until a fire in 1562 gutted the town.

It closed in 1974, and is now known as Marsh House. Opposite is the Lamb, which first made its appearance on this site between 1672 and 1781. The present Lamb opened in 1833.

All Saints' Church looks out over the marshes by Church Farm, and stands at the west gates to the castle (not now the public entrance, which is from the Wartling Road).

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Slightly further west, and just one minute away from the town centre, the 300 acres of wet grassland that are Doxey marshes remain largely unspoiled.

Next door to Macdonald the baker (right) are Evans Engineers, who successfully drained the marshes in 1867.

This ancient public house stands on the edge of level salt marshes that run for miles along this part of the coast, which is known for wildfowl and other bird life.

Lympne is a very ancient place indeed, and stands on a hilly scarp overlooking Romney Marsh. The Victorian art critic John Ruskin loved to walk the breezy heights here.

Marsh's stores and Ferring Motors' garage are on the opposite side of the road.

She was finally stranded on Thurnham Marshes, where she remained high and dry until the next spring tide, but visited by hundreds in the interim and much photographed.

Cumbria by open expanses of moss and marsh. Only the narrow Eden Valley offers an opening, running south-east to Stainmoor and lowland England.

Lots of Essex people can tell tales about getting lost on the marshes.

The houseboats also lined the banks as far south as Marsh Lock. They are now a thing of the past. Besides the houseboats, the river itself was a scrum of small boats.