(1) In 1559 extensive rebuilding took place around the pele tower, which obviously guarded a ford over the river.

(2) A mist began to settle in the treetops and drift slowly down into the lush valley where a stream cut a ford in the road.

(3) A Coptic Christian offered to show them a ford across the river.

(4) The name refers to the Cowholm - the riverside meadow used as pasturage - through which the road ran to reach a ford across the river (later the site of Bishop's Bridge).

(5) Access is either by a footbridge over a river or an uninviting ford .

(6) Our way, the way, was another small valley, a last ford , a last track, and time left for a wander round Whitby.

(7) Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light.

(8) There had been a ford in the Manhan River at this exact spot, so perhaps the miners had brought their waste material across the river in ox-drawn carts.

(9) This has been the main road east out of London since Roman times, heading out to an ancient ford over the River Lea and onwards to Colchester.

(10) A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns.

(11) The history of Maastricht goes back to approximately 50 B.C., when the Romans built a settlement by the main road near a ford in the river.

(12) If you attain this spirit, it applies to everyday life. You must always think of crossing at a ford .

(13) In this example, passage was used to describe a ford of the Jordan River.

(14) Nothing in the vehicle is power-operated, so you could ford a river, have water sloshing through the cabin, and there's no electrics to fail.

(15) If you carry on, follow the path across another bridge 2 where there is also a shallow ford , much loved by children.

(16) You used to be able to drive across the ford at Watersplash Lane, but it had to be blocked off because cars kept getting stuck halfway across, and we had to get tractors out to pull them clear.

(17) In early times this was one of the important fords over the River Griese, and was at that time called Athbiothlinn meaning The Ford of the House of Sustenance.

(18) We passed the occasional kamikaze truck driver hurtling down the narrow mountain roads; and forded green rivers that were spanned by metal bridges.

(19) This route also involves crossing a high pass and fording a turbulent river, the Allt Cam in An Lairig.

(20) The boar lunged from his hole and into the river just as the lord was fording it, and the two met in frothing white water.