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The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.

They were built in rows. Bowman's Terrace was one of the earliest, claiming space hard by the sea and near the town.

It landed on a row of cottages in Chapel Street opposite St Anne's Church, killing seven residents. The event is commemorated by the Whitehead Garden.

The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.

Across the road, the row of small shops, which included Forum Cleaners & Dyers, J D Gillett & Son (seed growers) and the Covent Garden Stores, have been removed and replaced by a garden area - dedicated

Further north was the hamlet of Horley Row, with the Chequers Inn at its east end. This is now a busy road junction of the A23 and B2036 Balcombe road.

This unspoiled row of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered houses facing onto the church was built and owned mainly by small farmers and tradesmen, who formed the backbone of the rural affluent society

Today the town is most notable for its rows of terraces winding round the valley contours. This photograph captures some of the ornate town centre architecture.

The rowing boats and solitary figure standing on the isolated shingle beach offer a rare glimpse of what is now part of the Army`s prohibited Lulworth Range.

Wicker baskets carried by the ladies (in the right-hand rowing boat) were very much a feature of life until quite recent times.

Behind the top row are high elaborate canopies with helmets and crests.

It is flanked on the right by a row of very old stone cottages that appear to lean to one side but nevertheless stand to this day - no doubt a testament to those who built them!

At weekends the banks are lively with visitors, strollers and walkers, rowing club members, and people visiting the café.

In the foreground we see a couple of moored rowing boats that would be used to take lady friends for a gentle meander along the river on a fine, sunny afternoon, whereas on the river are a couple

In 1921 Batchworth Lake, being nearest the town, was already used for recreation with rowing boats and yachts.

Until 1864, Clacton had simply been a row of cliffs. It was Peter Bruff, a railway engineer, who bought the land and started to develop a resort here.

The Eels Foot Inn now dispenses refreshments to visitors after their row on the broad. The ladies' headwear is typical of the early 1930s, and short skirts were in vogue.

The latter was originally named Brunswick Row by the Duke of Gloucester on 16 August 1824.

Mercer Row is a good example, and the Georgian shop window to the right survives intact.

The small, ornate castellated building in the centre of the row of shops used to be Heswall Village Post Office, but that later moved to its present position in the building to its immediate right.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of the lake was originally a hand-rowed operation.

At times the river can spill out across the whole of the meadows, so that the residents of Bath Row are protected behind flood walls.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

A large village on the northern edge of the Ashdown Forest, Forest Row was a popular place in the 14th century when the King and his Lords used it as a base for hunting.