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Originally a 13th-century farm, the building became a halt for packhorse trains carrying wool across the hills.

The hall up the hill on the left dates from 1914.

The reason is the massive shopping centre at nearby Merry Hill, opened in the 1980s on the site of a former steelworks.

It had an impressive system of inclined planes to deal with the hills inland, but fell into disuse; today only the short seaward end is in use.

Port Isaac made front page news in 1999 when local farmer Robert Sloman's Landrover went out of control on the steep hill behind the village.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Above the town, rising to 900ft, is Painswick Beacon with its golf course and ancient British hill fort.

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

The Cotswolds reach their highest point at West Down, 1083 feet above sea level, above this parish of Cleeve Hill, east of Cheltenham.

Summer sunshine has brought out the flowery frocks, but the ladies will still not venture out without their hats.

The view from nearby Windmill Hill is spectacular.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill. In wet weather horses with heavy wagons slipped and slid up to St Paul's. The quagmire became so impassable that a new wooden roadway had to be added.

In Roman times a fort stood on nearby Brough Hill, and a garrison was maintained here from about AD 80 to around the end of the 4th century.

With its cobbled main street, wide square and bustling market, Bedale sits astride a long, low hill on the edge of Wensleydale.

During the Great War, Cannock Chase was used as a training area for troops, and two military camps were established at Coppice Hill, near here, and at Brindley Heath, both connected by a railway.

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station.The 15th-century church is on the hill- side.The photograph shows the view from the side of Stane Street, which

To the right we can see Kensington Church Street leading north to Notting Hill Gate.