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This picture gives us a good view of the old Wearmouth, or Sunderland, iron bridge.

The iron gates are still in place; they are a delightful ornament provided by our Victorian forefathers.

The south door is notable, too, for its iron scrollwork. One of Heybridge's main industries, an ironworks, surrounded the church and vicarage on three sides.

There are many hill forts that punctuate the western escarpment; the majority of them belong to the Iron Age, and date from about 600 BC.

Haverigg is perhaps best known today for the nearby Hodbarrow Point RSPB reserve, which has been developed on a former iron mining site on the Duddon Estuary.

Various Iron Age sites and encampments illustrate the area's wealth of history.

Notice the particularly fine, cast-iron gas lamp on the corner just outside the grounds of St Faith's private school.

The population increased during the first half of the century with the discovery of an abundant supply of coal and iron ore.

It subsequently became home to Iron Age inhabitants, who left behind their circular huts and fort ramparts.

Darby chose the location with care; supplies of coal, iron ore, and water were readily available, and there was access to the Bristol Channel ports by way of the Severn.

The population increased during the first half of the century with the discovery of an abundant supply of coal and iron ore.

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.

The iron machinery for raising water is still intact.

All along the Nene valley hereabouts are flooded iron ore pits, some of which have been turned into fishing or boating lakes.

Beyond the unsightly iron bridge can be seen the offices of the Great Northern Railway: later occupied by the Trustees Savings Bank.

Between 1801 and 1901 West Bromwich’s population rose from 5,600 to over 65,000 owing to its becoming a centre for iron-making.

Immediately above it is the outline of the ancient Bratton Camp, an Iron Age fortification.

This concrete bridge replaced the earlier iron bridge in 1959 as part of the flood prevention scheme that started in the late 1950s.

Immediately above it is the outline of the ancient Bratton Camp, an Iron Age fortification.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

Not far away at Castle Hill is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age. Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Danish warriors would all have known this neighbourhood.

Beyond the bandstand is the Pagoda, a cast iron structure designed for the international Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. It survived the war, but was removed in 1949.

The church of St Michael and All Angels is entered through a picturesque iron gate with lamp.

Crickley is an important archeological site, where an extensive Iron Age promontory hill fort has been under excavation since the 1960s.