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The village lies under the shadow of Hordown Hill, a prominent local viewpoint.

On the other hand, the earliest that Brierley Hill is known to have been inhabited is 1619, though by the mid 18th century it too was noted for its coal pits, nail-making, brickworks, forges and glass

The site on a hill makes the church visible from many miles away.

The Spain may have been named after Spanish wool merchants who gathered here to trade for wool and cloth, and Music Hill is where 18th-centu- ry military bands played.

The road behind the cart leads to Wherwell, and the horse is looking up the track to Bere Hill Farm.

Horner Water winds through a steep, densely- wooded vale, which lies below the abrupt northern slopes of Dunkery Hill, Somerset's highest point.

Contributing to this popularity was the electric tram service that ran to the top of the hill from Cheltenham and opened in 1901.

The bank was built in 1894 as the Wilts & Dorset Bank on the main road to Bournemouth at the Church Road cross- roads at the bottom of Castle Hill.

It crowns the hill, and has many monuments to the Culpeper family.

In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

St Giles Hill is the high ground to the east of the old city walls.

Colneford House stands on Colneford Hill and overlooks the green we see in W194011.

Notice the army barracks on the hill beyond.

The twin villages of Cawsand and Kingsand nestle into the hills on the west of Cawsand Bay; they were once, like so many Cornish villages, a centre for smugglers.

These ladies are strolling on one of the highest hills in North Norfolk.

This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps.

Hollins Hill was built in 1909 by William Haworth, as a home for himself and his sister Anne.

Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort.

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

Oolitic limestone has been quarried at Cleeve Hill for centuries.

This scene, looking up Denton Hill towards Cuddesdon, has not changed much to this day.

To the right behind the houses is Tower Hill, the site of Gourock Castle.

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Christ Church was built in 1830-31, high above the town on Sambourne Hill.