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The Truro River promises visitors exquisite scenery, its broad banks enriched with lush green woods.

Acle is a popular centre for amateur yachtsmen, who come ashore to explore the area and visit the inns used by local rivermen.

Solid, if plain, buildings on both sides of Fore Street give this district of Hayle the look of a mining town. The name comes from the copper works, which closed in the early 19th century.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

This 15th-century market cross stands in the centre of the village. The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227. These continued to be held until the 1960s.

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

There are windmills all over the Norfolk Broads. To give them their correct name, they are wind pumps, used to keep the water flowing from low-lying areas.

This modest resort of broad beaches and spectacular rock scenery can be reached along the sands from Newquay.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s. This street of small shops is showing signs of commercialism.

At East Runton you could walk out along broad stretches of beach and enjoy digging for fossils in the soft cliffs, a pastime made popular by the Victorians.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Until the mid 20th century, the Norfolk sailing wherry was ubiquitous in these parts. Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.

Wroxham Broad winds through solitary, yet fertile countryside. It is almost impossible to believe that this huge stretch of placid water was hacked out by men seeking fuel for their hearths.

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

This view shows a broad expanse of cobbles. R J Glass's sombre edifice, left, dominates the building line, so much of which has made way for today's modern shopping facilities.

The Old Steine (pronounced 'steen') is the traditional centre of Brighton - in earlier times it was a broad grassy valley where fishermen dried their nets.

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.