Search Results

Little girls pose for the cameraman on the ford at the Tillingbourne. 'Gomeselle' was mentioned in Domesday, at which time a mill already existed at the site.

Starkey, Knight & Ford's brewery was in Tiverton, and their trademark black horses could at one time be seen all over Devon.

Before the Town Bridge was strengthened, heavy carts had to ford the river from either the ramp at the sunlit break beyond the trees or another ramp on the right beside the bridge.

A fine view over the River Avon, with a horse cooling itself by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

Roman remains abound in Dorset; many were excavated in the 20th century, including an impressive Roman Villa near this old fording place at Fifehead Neville. Finds can be seen in local museums.

Whatstandwell gets its strange name from Walter Stonewell, a 14th- century resident whose house was next to the former ford which crossed the river here.

The 'shallow ford' owes its name to the Tillingbourne Stream that flows just beyond St Mary's Church (right), built in 1847, and then into the River Wey.

An ancient ford and footbridge, an abandoned cartwheel, and the splash of running water over a tiny weir—this delightful photograph of two stone cottages and their attractive gardens reminds us that the

This bridge, like the one at Bewdley, was designed by Thomas Telford; it replaced an old ferry and ford. It is a single-span iron bridge.

Seen from the west ramp of the ford, G H Hoare, Coach Building, Shoeing & General Smith, advertises his work, while a man fishes below the island where brown trout still swim against the flow.

In the background, a notice on the shop advertises a 20 hp Ford car for hire.

A farm van fords the river on the back road to Hinxton from Duxford. The footbridge is often in use when there are flash floods. Further upstream is a watermill that is still in working order.

In very early times Fordingbridge was known simply as 'Forde' , a crossing point of the Avon since prehistoric times.

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

The town was founded on a ford over the River Aire, near Kirkstall Forge, where the monks of Kirkstall Abbey once smelted iron ore.

It was built in 1800, after the Gregs raised the height of the weir at Styal and destroyed the old ford that took the road over to Pownall Hall.

The ford that gave Allerford its name lies beside an ancient, two- arched packhorse bridge.

The name Clatford means 'ford where burdock grew'. 30 years before this photograph was taken, the first locally manufactured traction engine trundled through the village on its way to the Royal Agricultural

In earlier times, before the construction of its many bridges, the Otter presented a formidable barrier to travellers, particularly when the river was in flood and its ford impassable.

Standing almost squarely on the spot once occupied by Beda's ford (on Town Bridge), the photographer has captured the essence of a leisurely lifestyle.

Little girls pose for the cameraman on the ford across the Tillingbourne stream, alongside the old mill. This attractive village sits on the winding road between Guildford and Dorking.

The wash itself—near Laindonponds—was where a tributary of the Crouch forded the road.

It owes its name and its foundation to the five roads that meet in the town and the fact that at this point it was possible to ford the rivers Hit and Flit.

Pebbles were once known locally as pobbles, and the ford on the River Otter was full of them - hence the name of the village.