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Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.

The River Dee rises at Bala, and makes an 80-mile dash for the sea, sweeping through a dangerous switchback of rapids and rocks to Llangollen.

Woolverstone Hall was built in 1776 by William Berners overlooking the Orwell, up-river from Pin Mill.

Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

The significance of the River Medway in the life and development of Chatham is well illustrated in this view of the town and the river from the slopes of The Lines above Town Hall Gardens.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.

We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp. The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.

Taken from slightly further out over the river from the bridge, this view shows the riverside conservatory/orangery added to the Swan's rear ranges before 1900 - it has subsequently been

Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

The Butt and Oyster is probably the most well-known pub on the East Coast, at Pin Mill, on the River Orwell.

At Bishopstoke the River Itchen divides into a number of waterways.

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

During the Second World War, an anti-submarine boom ran across the river from Cloch Point to the Gantocks.

Across the river from Orford are some of the defence installations built on Orford Ness during the First World War.

The weir, a mile up the river from Totnes Bridge, was built in 1581 to provide water for the town mills, and marks the end of the freshwater Dart - below here the river is tidal.

In the days of sail, vessels making their way up the Avon to Bristol had to contend with several problems: the current, the wind through the Gorge, and the serpentine course of the river itself.

These ships are topsail schooners and what might be an inside or outside Tamar barge at Calstock, 17 miles up-river from the sea.

Grain and produce came up river from East Yorkshire, while coal, glass products, and minerals were sent from here both to London and the continent.

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

This interesting view was taken from the western side of the river from the site of today's police station, and shows many of the yards along Church Street.

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.