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On the left, the river bank is being cultivated as a vegetable garden - essential when the nearest shop is several hours away.

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

In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers. It now houses the regimental museum of the Green Howards.

We have our backs to the Red Lion, and are looking down the A257 Sandwich and Deal road, with Lloyds Bank clearly visible on the right.

The tree-shaded Magdalen Walks along the bank of the Cherwell are truly delightful and a perfect way to study the changing seasons.

So many towns and villages in Worcestershire are beautifully set on the banks of the county's rivers - as Wyre Piddle is on the Avon.

A family group prepare their picnic on the banks of the River Dove beneath the natural arch known as Reynard's Cave.

This view, dating from 1904, looks eastwards from the north bank and duplicates picture 43865 on page 17.

In 1863 a railway was constructed along the bank for transporting iron from the mines at Restormel. However, it was soon carrying visitors, keen to savour the joys of the waterside life.

At Wadebridge the Camel is so fast-flowing that it is said that there were once chapels on each bank by the ford where travellers prayed for a safe crossing.

Opposite are the bright new premises of Becketts Bank.

Moored alongside the far bank is a floating tea room, which appears to be doing a brisk trade. The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well.

At the street's end is the Cornish Bank.

The Truro River promises visitors exquisite scenery, its broad banks enriched with lush green woods.

The slightly overlarge Italianate Town Hall, along with the French Renaissance bank building of 1891, dominate an otherwise well-ordered street scene.

However, because it is so picturesque the village suffers at weekends and bank holidays - it is often choked with cars.

The house later became a bank.

The house later became a bank.

This fine view of the Howden Dam, with the forbidding moorland of Bleaklow beyond, is taken from Abbey Bank, on the edge of the Howden Moors.

Fowey seamen have been well travelled for centuries - as early as the 16th century they were working Newfoundland's grand banks for cod.

In the 19th century the Bank House brewed its own beer: the wall and steps of the malt kiln and the cellar can be seen on the right.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

There are only two bridges on this stretch of the river, which probably explains why Reading has not expanded on the north bank.

Moored at the jetty are a number of boats; on the banks are reeds, rushes and alders, good nesting places for small birds, ducks and swans.