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Caption For Malmesbury, Baskerville C1955

Beyond the bridge is Back Hill Steps.

Caption For Newnham, The Cottage C1955

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry.

Caption For Castle Donington, High Street C1955

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

Caption For Fittleworth, Lea Hill 1908

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Caption For Whitewell, And Hodder Valley 1921

The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.

Caption For Lewes, The River C1960

Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.

Caption For Crowcombe, Cross And Carew Arms 1929

The Village 1940 Beyond Williton, our route follows the western edge of the Quantock Hills back towards Taunton.

Caption For Somerton, Market Cross 1904

Heading back north, we cross the River Yeo and reach Somerton, another medieval market town, this time on a ridge in the Polden Hills and on the south bank of the River Cary, which weaves through the

Caption For Fordingbridge, C1960

Not far away at Castle Hill is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age.

Caption For Gourock, General View 1900

In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.

Caption For Botley, Mill Hill C1955

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square.

Caption For Belbroughton, Hartle Lane C1965

Belbroughton is happily situated just south of the Clent Hills.

Caption For Winwick, The Church C1960

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

Caption For Dawlish, Dawlish Water 1928

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.

Caption For Shipton Gorge, Village 1899

This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre).

Caption For Baslow, Hydropathic Establishment C1884

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

Caption For Woodhouse Eaves, Village From The Memorial C1955

In walking country, the village, although undistinguished, is associated by local people with Newton Linford, Bradgate Park and Beacon Hill, or just as being on the back route from Leicester to Shepshed

Caption For Bradwell, From Bradwell Edge C1955

In the background is the Lose Hill-Back Tor ridge.

Caption For Richmond, The Bar 1913

We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.

Caption For Richmond, The Bar 1913

We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.