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The round house on the north bank of the river was a popular bathing spot.

The village lies on the banks of the Oxford Canal and the river Cherwell. A bloody Civil War battle took place near here in 1644.

The premises of Barclays Bank can be seen on the right, next door to Morris Garages.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

By 1086 the Soar Valley was well settled, and although the Domesday village of Barhou offers little to delight the visitor, the river has a watery magnetism which draws families from Leicester to its banks

Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

In this idyllic scene much loved by artists and photographers, the River Usk wends its way through wooded banks away from Abergavenny and flows on to join the Severn beyond Newport.

This photograph of The Green shows the mock-Gothic Martin's Bank in the centre of the town.

The Portland stone bridge, built in 1813, carries the main road from Poole to Wimborne on the far bank of the River Stour.

The entire complex comprises an outer circular bank with an inner ditch. Inside was a great stone circle enclosing two smaller circles.

Wareham is seen here from South Bridge, looking westwards to the banks of the Anglo-Saxon Town Walls and Castle Close (centre right), built by Edward Seymer Clark on the footings of a Norman fortress

Pershore is an old market town of considerable charm on the right bank of the River Avon.

A fine view of one of Belfast's many imposing buildings, the Ulster Bank in Waring Street. It was built in 1860 and still stands today.

It is said that this point on the River Bure has seen various means of crossing from one bank to the other for the last thousand years.

The building across the square behind the fountain is now Barclays Bank.

The Square was created on its banks.

A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

This photograph shows Victoria Road and the approach to Bank Top railway station.

The sturdy building on the opposite bank of the river was put up in the 1850s as a flour mill; later it was used for textiles. After a period of dereliction, it was converted into apartments.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

What was the Cornish Bank (designed by W J Winn, who also built the Methodist Chapel) is now Lloyd's.

One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy