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Leading to Runcorn Hill, Highlands Road and the surrounding area is a lovely part of the town. Of the cottages shown here only the one in the foreground still survives.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

Branscombe lies amid what a previous vicar described as 'a perfect jumble of hills'.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme. Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

Cosily tucked away in a fold of the sandstone hills south-east of Godalming, Mare Lane leads to the highest point of the Down at Hydons Ball, where it reaches 593 feet.

The Swan Inn, with its tall chimney and man working on a ladder, is near the bottom of the hill.

The typically Kentish peg-tiled roof, with its garnish of houseleek and lichen, would have been known to Charles Dickens, for whom a favourite walk was from his Gad's Hill home near Strood to Shorne

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

Burgess Hill is one of the mid 19th-century settlements created on enclosed Wealden commons.

It was taken literally weeks before the start of the building of a series of individual, sometimes rather grand villas, which were to extend from the heights of Highgate Hill to Crouch End.

The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.

The Lion Enclosure was one of those specifically accommodated into a natural feature of Castle Hill. Here two of its occupants sun themselves.

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.

This view shows Penwortham Hill and the climb out of Preston on the Liverpool/Southport road. The newly-erected Penwortham War Memorial is on the right.

Large 19th-century houses line the road on the far side of the Common on Chaters Hill. In the grass on this side of the house on the right lies the mediaeval maze.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

Joseph Blount from nearby Rookery Farm had a horse called Tinker which could be hired to help carts up Hurstbourne Hill.

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

Just behind the roof is wooded Beacon Hill.

The Tower is on the hill to the left. In this glorious summer scene, boats are moored along the jetty.

Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.