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Lullington Church stands a short walk away from Alfriston village, across the White Bridge over the Cuckmere. It is one of the smallest churches in England - it seats about 20 people.

This is the main shopping street between the Market Place and New Bridge. On the right is the Black Bull Hotel, noted for its two-storey bow window which projects into the street.

The bridge (right) is listed as an Ancient Monument. Beyond is the castle where King John died in 1216, the year after Magna Carta. The spire of St Mary Magdalene (centre) is 240 ft tall.

Before reaching Chilbolton village, here is the Seven Stars public house and the beautiful River Test, viewed from the bridge. Across the water was once the railway.

The view looks along Bridge Street towards the river. The Original Bakewell Pudding Shop is located further along on the right hand side. Stewarts Clothing Hall is the major building on the right.

This view was taken 70 years after photograph 18642, and apart from the statuary missing from the bridge buttresses, the scene is timeless.

A hint of that can be seen here, looking north from The Cross to the railway bridge.

The three boundaries of Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey all meet by the bridge across the River Wey.

The pictures show (top left) Bouthrey Bridge spanning the River Crake at Water Yeat; (top right) Blawith; (centre) High Nibthwaite; (bottom left) Blawith; and (bottom right) the bottom end of Coniston

This is the first Waterloo Bridge, which was opened in 1817 by the Prince Regent; this view looks from behind Cleopatra's Needle on the north bank. Below are Victoria Embankment Gardens.

This bleak view from the Pelham Bridge shows the influence of modern road improvement on a city landscape.

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background.

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

Not far away are moorings on the River Ant at Ludham Bridge. Holidaymakers on Broads cruisers generally find their way to the King's Arms for their much-needed refreshment.

Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

This was designed by John Oldrid Scott, second son of the great Victorian architect, George Gilbert Scott, who built Clifton Hampden's bridge over the Thames further upstream, as well as St Pancras station

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

The River Barle appears here little more than a placid stream, but in 1953 a devastating flood swept through Dulverton from the hills above, inundating the bridge and destroying the cottages at the far

A horse is just emerging under the bridge pulling a laden narrow-boat.

A small caravan site and the Cartford Hotel flank the approach to the Cartford toll bridge, which was built across the Wyre in 1831.

Less than half a mile upstream from Bideford Bridge, it is close by the original river crossing. This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

She was 80 feet long and 11 feet 6 inches in the beam, and was launched at Newby Bridge in 1843. Lady was paddle-driven – this was necessary because of the shallow river waters.

The latter was linked to the main building by a bridge across the Gullet - a small channel connecting the Rivers Chelmer and Can. The church was later replaced by the skyscraping Cater House.