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The car park in front of Selworthy's whitewashed church looks across the Vale of Porlock to the wooded Horner valley and Ley Hill.

THE WATERFALL c1960 This little scene of timber and water gives a feeling of how tranquil the Forest of Feckenham must have been when it covered the hills and vales round about.

During the reign of Henry IV, the King's army marched around these hills seeking to bring the Welsh patriot Owain Glyndwr to battle.

Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.

With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'

Castle Street is named for a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork on the wooded hill above the village.

Great Western Railway motor buses like the one struggling up the hill past the Cornish Bank were introduced in 1903, but it was many years before the horse disappeared from the streets.

However, towards the end of the 19th century, coaching was revived as a romantic alternative to the age of steam, and here is one such revival climbing Reigate hill.

The free-standing 'army hut' wards of the military hospital in the grounds of Frensham Heights (then known as Frensham Hill) during the First World War.

At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill.

The path extends south right to the recreation park, and to the north, by crossing the bridge to the right hand bank, into the area known as Scot's Garden at the foot of Castle Hill.

The M20 now cuts directly across this picture, and new factory and housing developments fill the scene.

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

Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill.

The countryside scenery around and about, however, is beautiful, as can be seen from the lofty hill that acts as a backdrop.

This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the towns around here.

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Appleton-le-Street's hill-top parish church of All Saints is famous for its tower, the lower part of which shows signs of Saxon work.

Standing at the bottom of the notoriously steep climb of Porlock Hill, the Ship Inn appears little changed today, despite the removal of its attractive wooden porches.

It therefore changed to St John's Hill - much more elegant.

St Bartholomew's enjoys an elevated position, possibly the site of a prehistoric fort, at the corner of Church Hill and Vicarage Road.

Prominent above Hawkshead is St Michael and All Angels' Church, of which William Wordsworth wrote '..I saw a snow white church upon her hill, sit like a throned lady…'

A popular destination of walkers, it was built to allow the miners of Pentre Du to reach the mines in the hills; a mile west of Betws-y-Coed, paths lead through the meadows to this steeply-inclined gangway