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Just beyond Bridge Foot we enter Bridge Street.

Framwellgate was Durham's first bridge over the Wear. It was built by Bishop Flambard in 1128. The peninsula end was defended by a gatehouse, but this fortification was demolished in 1760.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road. We are looking east from the north bank.

Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere, with the low south Lakeland hills in the background.

An excellent view of the Old Bridge with the castle in the background.

Part of Beeding's Bridge is just visible on the small rise at the far western end of the High Street, next to the Bridge Inn on the left.

Beyond is the Suspension Bridge linking Mill Meadow Island with Embankment Gardens at the right-hand end of the bridge.

That was an age of great prosperity, thanks to the flourishing wool trade, and there is little sign of such wealth and population in the small hamlet of today.

Abingdon Bridge, built 1416-1417, is classified as a listed monument. The Thames is quite wide at this point, and forms two separate streams as it flows on either side of Nags Head Island.

Wren's bridge, built by Robert Rumbold in 1709-12, has a balustraded parapet and heraldic beasts on display.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Lake Windermere.

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

The main A59 road from Liverpool to Preston runs through the centre of the village, and at the far end, rises over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere. This narrow and historic hump-backed bridge crosses the Leven below Windermere.

Compare this photograph with R67001 - the new bridge carries one of the approach roads to the Jubilee Bridge. Today the canal comes to an end near here.

The Welsh name for Bridgend is 'Yr Hen Bont'.

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

Th A415 heads south along the 15th-century causeway above the marshy river meadows to Culham Bridge, built in 1416-22 by Abingdon's Fraternity of the Holy Cross, but now by-passed by a modern bridge.

A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

Once a popular riverside haunt for the locals, Hog Island is now known as Piper's Vale, and is more remarkable today as the north-eastern end of the Orwell Bridge.

At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees.

This beautiful wooden trellised bridge crosses the end of a mill stream, where it joins the River Ouse. It was built in 1827, but it has been rebuilt twice, most recently in 1960.

Returning to the west end of the bridge, a most dramatic view of Andover was to be seen over Micheldever Road in 1908. Today, raw chalk has been conquered by soft greenery, obscuring the town.

This photograph was taken from the eastern end of the glen, two miles upstream from Fingle Bridge.