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Teddington was earlier called Todynton and Tuddington.

This unusual bridge was both the first road swing bridge on floating pontoons in Britain (it was built in 1899) and then the first electrically operated swing bridge (in 1989).

Here we can have a closer look at the famous bridge, with a group of boys fishing by the bandstand (left).

Most villages supported several shops and pubs.

The 1405ft long concrete four-span Royal Tweed Bridge, designed by L G Mouchel & Partners, was built in 1925-28 to take traffic off the old stone bridge that still stands nearby.

Looking back upstream past the boathouses in front of the 1830s St Helena Terrace and The White Cross, we see a fine view of Richmond Bridge, which dates from the 1770s and is one of the Thames' finest

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

The bridge joining Wroxham to the west and Hoveton to the east was declared unsafe in the 1960s.

Muckross Lake and Lough Leane are separated by Muckross Desmesne and Dinish Island.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

When Henry VIII's topographer John Leland travelled from Poole to Wimborne in 1542, he noted passing over a bridge with '12 good arches'.

Looking south from the bridge, the towering mass of the former Empire Hotel is on the right with its terrace.

Despite the masonry facings, this bridge across the Axe is made of concrete, built to the design of Philip Brannon in 1877.

The bridge was a toll bridge; it opened to the public on 1 January 1781.

The River Witham is narrow here, but deep, as it was probably canalised during Norman or even possibly Roman times - the bridge does include Norman stonework.

The River Witham is narrow here, but deep, as it was probably canalised during Norman or even possibly Roman times - the bridge does include Norman stonework.

Two of the three bridges which have spanned Runcorn Gap over the River Mersey are seen from Runcorn.

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

Tower Bridge has become a virtual symbol of London, and it is certainly a very striking and remarkable structure.

This is the approach road from the Barrow in Furness direction to Newby Bridge, now the A590, with the Swan Hotel on the far side of the bridge.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge.

An interesting view showing the Ha'penny pedestrian bridge across Rifts Wood and the road bridge between the old town and new town.

Apart from the wintry ice of a semi-frozen Thames, this view from Savoy Pier shows the old Waterloo Bridge, which was designed by Sir John Rennie and completed in 1817.

The bridge carries the road over the River Deben, where a short-lived quay was built in the 19th century.