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From here we can see how the picturesque fishing village has been crammed into the flatter land between the sea and a steep hill.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the River Cherwell, Oxford creates the impression of sitting on an island.

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.

The lead-mines are long gone; by the 1950s the town's economy was centred upon hill farming and a growing tourist trade.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

We can see a postman outside, struggling up the hill with his wheeled hamper of mail.

A pair of ramblers (right) heading for the hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.The lack of traffic in the main street is in sharp contrast

The hill-top town of Shaftesbury, or Shaston as it is sometimes known, owes its foundation to Alfred the Great, showing much evidence of its Saxon origins.

The village of Upper Beeding nestles against the hills. Confusingly, Upper Beeding is lower than its namesake Lower Beeding, which lies about 15 miles away near Horsham.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine—or monkey-puzzle tree—grows in a garden further down the hill

Stump Cross Caverns, on the summit of Greenhow Hill on the road between Pateley Bridge and Grassington, were discovered by lead miners seeking new veins of the then precious ore.

St Lawrence's Church provides good views towards Wincanton and the hills on the boundary with Dorset. Its tower has a cupola and plaque dating from the restoration after a storm in 1703.

Crays Hill is a thoroughfare settlement in the parish of Ramsden Crays—the name ultimately coming from the 12th-century de Crei family.

Nearby on the summit of Blacklow Hill is a monument to Piers Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II.

Perched on a steep hill, the photographer has done justice to this picturesque view just off the Heads of the Valleys Road.

Cemetery Hill 1910 Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber- framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

This view looks down the hill towards The Priory and Lister's factory. The 18th-century shopfronts of Long Street have been largely retained.

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.

Rising as it does in the hills on the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders, the Trent in 1885 was estimated at being about 150 miles in length with a drainage area of 4050 square miles, of which 2900 were

The spade missed, but struck the hill instead, causing the gash now known as the Needle's Eye. Walking clothes seem to have changed considerably in the last one hundred years.

To its right Barn Hill climbs gently north-west, a street of almost unspoilt Georgian houses.

A marvellous view of the once bustling scene at the tea rooms near the summit of Box Hill, close to the Monument. The Old Fort itself was built against the French.

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the Cherwell, Oxford gives the impression of sitting on an island.