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But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west.

The industrialisation of the Don Valley begins here at Stocksbridge, a town dominated by steel, chemicals and former coal and clay workings.

Laindon and Langdon Hills had always been separate villages with long histories, and even appeared as separate entries in the 1086 Domesday Book.

Beacon Hill, in the distance, was in the chain of warning beacons established when French and later Spanish invasions were feared in the 16th century.

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

It was developed from clay pits left over from old brickworks; it had formerly been the site of earthworks for an ill-founded attempt to excavate a tunnel through Swindon hill for the Swindon, Marlborough

This hill is an outlier of the Chiltern chalk rearing through the London clay.

Because the heavy clay soil prevents drainage, the grass tracks quickly turned into quagmires and became impassable to motor vehicles.

The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

This has been used in some of the older buildings around North Hill, including the tower of St Michael's church.

In many places its poor drainage from a thick layer of boulder clay caused frequent and destructive flooding.

Among discoveries made are a coin found in Wolverton by Galleon's Wharf; a ring brooch at Bury Lawn, Great Linford; a clay weight for a weaving loom at Pennyland; a spearhead near Rickley Wood

Most of the land around Pitsea, Dunton and Langdon Hills had originally been farmland; the crops were mainly barley, oats, wheat, peas, beans, and clover.

This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

In the distance is the tree-clad hill of Bramber Castle with the stone tooth of its keep.

Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Behind the house is the famous Selborne Hanger, a beautiful beech-clad hill beloved of the 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, who also lived at The Wakes.