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The river flowing beneath the 15th-century bridge is the Darent, which rises near the county boundary with Surrey near Westerham and runs through a myriad of Kent villages to the Thames near Long-reach

Standing beside a bridge across the River Brun, from which the town takes its name, is Burnley Town Hall.

An audience watches from the old bridge as two coracle fishermen cast their nets for salmon or sea-trout. Sturgeon have also been caught here.

Stamford Bridge over the River Derwent is still a popular stopping place for visitors, although the Old Corn Mill inn has recently closed, a victim of drink/drive laws.

The 'Star Inn' on the left is being given a fresh lick of paint in this view from the railway bridge.

The driver of this MG Magnette was perhaps distracted by the vista around him, and has himself become something of a tourist attraction.

Conwy was already something of a tourist attraction by 1898 with its castle and remnants of the planned medieval town.

By the 1890s the leisure boathouses and boat builders had taken over, interspersed with inns and hotels catering for the visitors who flocked to the river in and out of the Regatta season.

Electric street tramcars had been introduced in 1899; in this picture we have a selection of single-deckers and open-top double-deckers.

The High Street, across the Witham via Town Bridge rebuilt in 1913, presents a mainly late Georgian character with mostly three-storey frontages to the pavement edge, but many of these conceal earlier

Most cottages here were built in the century from 1750, and accommodated coal miners. Other trades here included spinning and weaving.

The main Huddersfield to Manchester railway makes its way along the steep side of the valley, and it has to cross many side valleys.

High Street remains unchanged, and is still used for markets on Saturdays. Much of the northern half of the street is pedestrianised.

Located on the east side of Magdalen Bridge, The Plain signifies the boundary of the old city. Just out of sight, the River Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

Wootton Bridge has many connections with the sea, as the name of its inn suggests. In the churchyard lies the grave of the Victorian admiral Sir John Baird, who died in 1908.

The bridge was built in 1661. Carrog, or Llansantffraid Glyndyfrdwy, is in the heart of the lands of Owain Glyndwr, the marcher lord.

Rebuilt by the Tudors and again by the Victorians, it contains interesting relics of its history.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

Back across the river, via the Batheaston toll bridge, follow the Avon south before turning right to Monkton Combe, a delightful village nestling in the valley of the Midford Brook.

This splendid sixty-eight feet high Gothic-style memorial beside the old bridge in Wisbech is to Thomas Clarkson, who dedicated his life to travelling the country, speaking in support of William Wilberforce's

The curious Mathematical Bridge across the Cam, built on geometric principles, and originally held together - so the story goes - without any fixing devices.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour. The street today has been partly pedestrianised. In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

Old Bridge Road c1955 The hilltop village of Bloxham has a striking parish church with an intricately designed late 14th-century tower and spire, possibly completed by the same masons who worked

A barrier gate system is now in operation over this busy bridge.