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Roads pass by leading to Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn. The young John Bright attended school here to improve his knowledge and physique.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

The signs leave no doubt that in 1960 the inn was owned by Dutton's Brewery (of Blackburn), and that John Kirkby was the licensee.

Alma Bridge spans the Sid at the point just before the river tumbles across a pebbled ridge into the sea.

The present stone bridge replaced earlier ones (the first built in timber by the energetic Bishop Alexander in the 12th century); it dates from 1775, with footways and cast iron railings added in 1848

In the 17th century the wooden bridge became so dangerous that Lancaster Quarter Sessions ordered that 'the inhabitants of Thorneton of the east side of Thorneton bridge and the inhabitants of Stayno shall

The River Lune and the town of Lancaster are viewed from the New Bridge, or the Skerton Bridge as it is now called.

The old bridge over the River Aire was rebuilt in 1765 and survived 32 years before its demolition in 1797.

Constant repairs were needed to the medieval Great Bridge. In c1790 the Earl of Warwick offered to pay most of the cost of a new bridge, which was to be erected upstream.

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

The Thames emerges from the Goring Gap at Pangbourne, and the valley widens out again. This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

It is always a sight worth watching, as the bridge swings open to allow the passage of a paddle steamer. Note the tramlines visible on the roadway of the bridge.

It was from the southern slope of Abbey Craig that Wallace launched his attack against the Earl of Surrey's troops as they attempted to cross the narrow wooden bridge over the Forth.

Construction of the M1's first 55 miles (including Milton Keynes's section) took 586 days - a bridge every three days and a mile of road every ten.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Greystone Bridge is 'the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together', according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in 'Old Cornish Bridges and Streams'.

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network.

Now known as the Shillingford Bridge Hotel, and with a large and rather poor extension replacing the clapboarded building to the right, this Georgian inn is situated on the south bank by the elegant bridge

The donkeys have a long walk every day from their field just below the Abbey House, down the donkey path, along Church Street, over the bridge and down Pier Road to the sands.

LOWICK BRIDGE, The River Crake L462009 Lowick Bridge is the second road bridge to span the waters of the River Crake after it leaves Coniston Water, and is close to the pub.

The first bridge, built in 1235, was eleven feet wide. By 1773 the hump was lowered, and a second widening took place in 1826. All three stages can be seen from underneath the present bridge.

The East and West bridges cross the Derwent side by side. The narrow arched bridge was built in 1727 and stands above the battleground. The later bridge now carries the railway.

This beautiful old bridge still stands next to the ford, and although often called a packhorse bridge, it was probably built to allow the priors to travel between St Stephens and St Thomas; hence its more