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The Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union departs from the main line at Marsworth, and has some 16 locks in 6 miles, very narrow and not for the faint-hearted.

The old stone bridge straddles the river Kennet, fringed by meadows and trees. The village is in a Conservation area, with plenty of brick-built thatched houses in its centre.

Thatch and timber buildings such as the one in this photograph are not an uncommon sight in Ibsley. There is a small brick church here, as well as a stone bridge over the river to Harbridge.

We are near the long stone road bridge to Houghton, built in 1875 and crossing the tidal River Arun. Vinson's was a popular riverside tea rooms and garden. There is still a tea garden on the site.

The tower, marking the eastern entrance to the High Street, dates back to 1492 and took seventeen years to complete. The delay was probably caused by lengthy financial problems.

Welford Reservoir was constructed in 1837 to store and supply water to the Welford Arm which then fed the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

In the distance beyond the bridge is a pub. At the time of this view, it would have been called the Rose and Castle.

Cross the humped bridge over the river from Coltishall, and the village becomes Horstead.

The Foregate and Foregate Street continue the line of High Street northwards and developed as a suburb many centuries ago.

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.

This downstream view, taken from almost the same vantage point as N50079, shows the ugly and large hotel built in the intervening fifteen years close to both Trent Bridge cricket ground and Nottingham

This is the view from Poole Bridge. The Nissen hut on the left has today given way to a building occupied by the Lifeboat Station and Dorset Police Marine Section.

was a large mill on the River Nadder just upstream from the confluence with the Avon.The Millers House seen here is all that remains of a much larger building; it is now almost invisible from the bridge

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

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.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow 'one of the fair inns' of Southwark.

We are looking up river towards the lock gates, with the site of the former abbey and its grounds on the right.

Situated on the north-western edge of the New Forest, Fordingbridge was once famous for the manufacture of canvas and sail cloth.

The pony and trap seen here was a versatile form of transport.

The locomotive comes tender first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station-master.

In the centre of the village, on Affleck Bridge, is the Independent Wesleyan Chapel built in 1874 to serve the Nonconformist industrial workers of the boot and shoe factories.

In the late 18th century a ferry operated between Muskham and Newark, but the owners soon gained a reputation for being greedy when the river was in flood; there is one instance of them charging five guineas

This beautiful display has survived, but vandalism and lack of funds has meant that many have disappeared.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.