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Chandler's Ford Lake has been much improved since this photograph was taken.

This view is taken from the Bedfordshire bank, with the ford (still in existence) in the foreground.

Situated two and a half miles from Ashford church, Swinford takes its name from a ford for swine.

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

A Mini, a Wolseley, a Ford Capri and Cortina, a Morris Traveller and others all suggest the age of the motor car is finally with us; this street is dominated by the motor vehicle.

A church was recorded as being on this site in the Domesday Book, when a 'ford' was built over the River Cray.

This settlement commanded the lowest fording point on the River Medway, and here, in 455, the invading Jutes under Hengist defeated the native forces led by Vortigern.

This rare shot shows the old turnpike cottage (left) at Holme Toll Bar, before the corner was cleared for road widening, looking westwards from Stoborough to East Holme.

In 1965, the county boundaries changed and Eaton Socon, with Eaton Ford, became part of Huntingdonshire.

Just six miles from the Borde, the village of Ford sits on gently rising ground on the right bank of the Till.

The neat white pickup truck belongs to G Ford, Builder Contractor, of Ightham.

In this view we look past Step Cottage with its external stack (now no longer with a thatched roof) towards the ford in the valley bottom.

Previously, the Hogsmill River emerging from the Horse Pond had to be forded by stepping-stones.

The Ford Cortina is parked outside Broadways, an 'RAC approved tearoom with bed and breakfast 10s 6d.'

West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.

The Railway Hotel, near the Chandler's Ford station, changed its name to the Monks Brook Inn after the closure of the station in 1969.

Bedford grew up at a ford over the River Ouse before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the mid to late 5th century AD.

It was long known to motorists on the A23 London to Brighton road for the major hold-ups at its traffic light junction with Star Lane, just out of view to the left.

The driver of the Ford 300E van in the foreground has popped into Haywood's (right) for his morning newspaper.

A Ford Zodiac is the closest parked car (left).

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth & Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford

West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.