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Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes. It is from here that the Sandstone Trail now begins.

This interesting picture shows the bridge over the Rother at the bottom of Adhurst Hill. The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711).

The post office and general stores are still at the same site today at the summit of the hill and near the crossroads (though the proprietors have changed).

Beyond the cows, the hill is the site of the original castle motte. Beyond that are the houses along Burley Road.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

In the 19th century, a railway brought Brendon Hills iron ore here for shipment to Wales. In the 20th century, ships brought in esparto grass for the town's paper mills.

The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.

Looking down from the White Horse can be seen the flat-topped Dragon's Hill where, legend has it, St George slew the Dragon; the white markings on the side are where the blood of the Dragon ran down in

A local guide points out the stalactite formation known as the Organ in Stump Cross Cavern, one of the Dales' popular show-caves, at Greenhow Hill on the Pateley Bridge to Grassington Road.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the cathedral, whose modest spire (added when the tower was rebuilt in 1904) rises behind

Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone

The road on the top of the hill - indicated by the houses - leads to the delightfully names Conksbury Bridge in gorgeous Lathkill Dale.

This view from the roundabout looks north along Turner's Hill, where the contrast between the modern shopping parade and the smaller old shops can be appreciated.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.

Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of

This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill. On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

Until the 1930s, trams ran along Prestbury High Street en route to the top of Cleeve Hill. A workman was employed to grease the rails at the sharp bend just out of sight in the distance.