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At Colesbourne the River Churn is joined by Hilcot Brook, one of the tributaries that swell this normally slow-flowing waterway on its meandering way to Cirencester.

The Wallop Brook flows past on the left toward Middle and Nether Wallop, behind the camera. Cottages change names from time to time but the scene remains much the same.

Children sit astride the Beer Brook outside the vast, sprawling Shepherd's Cottage.

Turning to our left, this is what we would have seen in 1903, with the Windle Brook flowing towards the viaduct.

The poet Rupert Brooke died in the Dardanelles in 1915. In the years that followed, the village became a popular place to visit, with a number of places of refreshment springing up.

The village of Cound is split in two by the Coundmoor Brook - this photograph was taken in Upper Cound, which is separated from the earlier part of the village (where the church stands).

The Fighting Cocks Inn can be seen on our left, but the Hero of Inkerman was demolished to make way for the new by-pass, and was re- built further to the left.

Cosby brook runs through the centre of this pleasant village, which is a doorstep to the city; the village was the first in the county to have a conservation area.

The openness of the village is readily apparent in this photograph: it ranges along a brook, criss-crossed by modest Urban District Council railed footbridges.

Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton.

Abbotts Ann takes its name from the Pillhill brook, originally the Anna or Ann stream.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

The post office at Cadnam certainly has plenty of stock and a variety of advertisements. A Calor Gas stockist, the shop also boasts Brooke Bond and Walls ice cream.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Apart from the electricity poles, the only clues to this scene being in the 20th century are the ubiquitous signs for Walls, Brooke Bond Tea and Woodbines, which probably now stir many an early memory

A feature of several East Devon villages is a brook running alongside a main street.

The Town Hall was built in 1618, the gift of Sir Fulke Greville, first Baron Brooke, a friend of Sir Philip Sidney.

The beacon on Pendle Hill is said to be Saxon, and the field known as Kirkacre was in existence when Alfred the Saxon was chieftain.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Tucked away among trees by Pill Hill Brook, Monxton Church, with its shingle-faced belfry and broach spire perched on the gable, was rebuilt in early Victorian times.

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

Tiny brooks fill the air with the sound of running water. Its church is a fascinating medieval survival, which somehow escaped the worst excesses of Victorian restorers.

Built after the First World War as part of the village's memorial to the men who fought in the conflict, standing above the Mobberley Brook and the main road through the village, the

This is the Steeping river flowing towards the Wash and the North Sea. Earlier in its life it had more publicity, as it is also known as Tennyson's brook.