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

The Ford Popular car seems to want all the road.

To the north-west of the New Forest is the peaceful little town of Fordingbridge, named after the ancient ford and medieval bridge which facilitate a passage across the River Avon at this point.

This is a quintessentially mid 1960s scene: a Ford Anglia, a Mary Quant haircut, a cigarette machine.

The first bridge was built in 1806, but it collapsed in 1881 and travellers had to resort to the original ford until the present structure was opened two years later.

Pontrhydfendigaid means 'bridge of the blessed ford', and this is that bridge. By it is the village shop.

A town grew up around this ford over the River Coly, a mayor was elected, and a cattle fair was held. Such prosperity did not last, and Colyford had declined by the 18th century.

The name 'Clatford' means 'ford where burdock grew.' It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

A father and his son seem to be skimming stones in the right foreground on the beach, which probably marks the spot where the 'full ford' of the village's name once existed.

The age of the car has now arrived, with the front of a Wolseley 4/44 peeping out alongside a very new Ford Anglia.

It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.

The Ford of Guildford was here, and still existed until 1760 when the channel was deepened for navigation. St Nicolas church, built 1874-6, stands on the opposite side of the river.

Triumph Heralds and Ford Consuls were the cars of the day.

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.

By the 1950s, it was becoming apparent that Chelmsford had a traffic problem: these Ford Consuls and Austin A35s, among others, had seen to that.

In 1586 the Elizabethan dramatist John Ford was baptised here.

Newton Poppleford takes its name from the round stones, or popples (like the pobbles of Budleigh Salterton), that abound in the area; it was a fording place over the Otter for centuries

An old Ford Prefect and a motor scooter help to date the view.

The name Kersey means 'cress island', a fact to contemplate when crossing the Brett by bridge or ford. At the top of the hill is one of the best-known views in Suffolk.

Two bridges and a ford cross the stream that flows past the Blue Anchor Inn, which stands at the centre of the village.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

In 1509 William Ford, a merchant, founded and endowed the Greyfriar's Hospital, a half-timbered almshouse for five poor men and their wives.

The medieval bridge stands on the site of a ford, once the only crossing between Rochester and Maidstone. The Carmelite friary, rededicated in 1949, is now a place of pilgrimage.

The Ford garage, Taw Vale Motors, occupies what was Hopgood Haulage Contractors. This view was taken from the raised South Walk.