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When digging foundations for the footings on the far side of the railway bridge the Victorian engineers discovered the remains of a Saxon fortification built in AD 915 by Queen Ethelfleda

This view was taken from the top of Brunel's railway viaduct and looks down New Road to the bridge and the beginning of the High Street.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

This splendidly atmospheric view along the High Street looks across towards the great medieval minster church which dominates the city and the countryside for miles around.

The car carrying vehicles and foot passengers usually took up to four minutes to cross from one side to the other.

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

In 1831 there were only 150 people living in and around Consett.

The mill could take advantage of the canal for carrying its grain and flour all over the country.

The masts of sailing ships are visible beyond the bridge, and a fine collection of rowing boats can be seen around the boathouse.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.

Anchor Wood is a narrow band of trees with a pleas- ant walk overlooking marshy ground downstream of the Long Bridge and at the foot of Sticklepath.

The Union Canal Bill was approved by Parliament in 1793, and work began in 1794, reaching Fleckney in 1796.

In celebration of the new crossing that carried the railway over the river, the 18th-century sandstone inn we see here was renamed The Severn Bridge Hotel in 1879.

Both the 800-tonne Swing Aqueduct and the swing road bridge have been opened to allow the passage of a steamer on the MSC.

This splendid branch railway ran from Ulverston to Newby Bridge and Lakeside at the foot of Windermere.

This was not only a freight line for the reservoirs, but also a passenger railway between Pateley Bridge and Lofthouse from 1901 to 1929.

A lane leads left to the church and manor house, and to the right is Burycroft, which leads to the medieval bridge and then Abingdon.

Roads pass by leading to Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn.

In an area of outstanding beauty and ancient and quaint villages, its hard to be noticed.

The photograph gives an unusual perspective in that the exit from the bridge and the High Street beyond appears to be restrictive for both traffic and pedestrians.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

Roads pass by leading to Dunsop Bridge and Slaidburn.

We are upstream of the bridges.