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This view shows the junction of Boar Lane and Briggate, looking towards the Corn Exchange.

The road is named after the Tontine Hotel, which was built in 1783 to accommodate visitors coming to see the new bridge.

The weir, a mile up the river from Totnes Bridge, was built in 1581 to provide water for the town mills, and marks the end of the freshwater Dart - below here the river is tidal.

Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line. Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built.

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

Both bridge and buildings survive. Witchampton was best known for its paper mill at the other end of the village, which dated back to at least 1786 and closed only a few years ago.

Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line. Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built.

The 'Compton Castle', which we see here, was built by B Cox & Company of Falmouth in 1914; she originally had an open bridge which was enclosed in the 1920s.

The house at the end of the bridge is now painted cream, giving a lift to this view of the village.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

Of the 11 locks on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this is something of a halfway house. It stands just upstream of the road to Hatfield Peverel, in an area sometimes known as World's End.

Taken opposite Lower Quemerford Mill, this view shows Marden Bridge and the Mill House on the right.

Its 18th-century picturesque naturalistic park, designed by Bridgeman, Kent and Capability Brown, is dotted with Georgian temples, columns and garden buildings.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along

A well-worn path indicates a bridge frequently used by the locals.

The road to Harlow was a turnpike costing 1s for a coach and horses, and 1d for a horse.

On the Salisbury side of Harnham Bridge, De Vaux Place leads to The Close—the Harnham Gate is at the far end of the wall.

Cobbled Church Street leads to the church of St Michael and All Angels - the parish boundaries once extended to Chorley. At the end of this street is the ancient base of a restored preaching cross.

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

Just above the left-hand end of the bridge in S177036 (page 70) and here in 72297 we can see buildings which in the 1920s housed Cooper & Hall, the engineers.

The bridge over the River Calder is no longer the main arterial road from the south, having been superseded by the new bridge of 1933.

Now the Humber Bridge has given Goxhill a new life as a commuter village for Hull, although the part we see here has retained its village feel.

At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.