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The village was once famous for its lead mines, and the remains of many of them still survive in the gills of the surrounding fells.

Bentalls department store is in a commanding position, and towers over the other shops in Clarence Street.

Alongside the river, close to the bridge, this building has now lost its croquet lawns. Once part of the council offices, today it houses Paxtons Restaurant downstairs and a bed and breakfast above.

This is part of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. The lock was built between 1793 and 1797, and the principal engineer was John Rennie.

Teignmouth has been a busy port for centuries, shipping the local clay and also the granite that built the original London Bridge from Swell Tor quarries.

The two main crossings were here, at Stow Bardolph, and at nearby Magdalen bridge: these were droving roads used by cattle traders, and there was formerly a major cattle fair here at Stow.

The bridge has endured the excesses of the Broadland waters for many centuries, yet it required continual repairs and bolstering up - buttresses have been added to keep it in service.

In 1890 the timber-framed buildings on the west side of High Bridge were in a highly decayed state, as seen in this 1890 view.

To the east of Kingsbridge is the road to Torcross and Slapton Sands. This photograph shows the old four-arched bridge over the estuary. There has been a crossing here since the 10th century.

The bridge was formally opened with great pomp and ceremony on 30 June 1894. The flags are flying on the steamers, one of which is being hauled along by a tugboat.

We are looking from the bridge by the railway. The road is devoid of both people and traffic – is it early morning?

The bridge is more than over 2,760 yards long, including the approach viaducts, giving a clear headway at high water of 150 ft. The steel towers stand 360 ft high and are supported on granite piers.

The bridge over the River Derwent at Rowsley was built in the early 17th century, and still carries today's busy traffic on the A6 trunk road.

Here past the beck is Bridge Cottage on the right, and hidden behind the left-hand tree is the 12th-century church of St John the Baptist.

Such were the number of visitors navigating the overgrown and makeshift route from the town centre to the beach that the Windsor estate prioritised the construction of a more permanent path.

Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds. The bridge in the foreground is over the Barn Gill.

Flat-capped fishermen enjoy a chat and a view of the Lower Harbour by the swing bridge (right) in the ancient port of Whitby, situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea.

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.

Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871

This side of Bridge Street in the 1880s and 90s could quite easily have been renamed Ironmongers Row.

Situated about 50 yards below the ferry bridge, the riverside gardens, laid out in 1933, are still well-maintained and attractively stocked.

Linking the east and west sides of the town over the River Esk, the bridge is now crammed with tourists in the summer months.

The River Lune has never suffered the amount of industrial pollution that its southern Lancashire sisters the Mersey and the Ribble have had.

This scene has little changed, with the Exmoor Stores and the Crown Hotel surviving and still relying on trade from hunting.