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These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

The village, thought to date to Saxon times, takes its name from the nearby hill-fort. On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

The church of St Peter, standing further up the hill, has a nave and aisles dating from the early 13th century.The town name is believed to have come from the pagan worship of Thunor.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

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

This is still one of Gorleston's most popular hotels, and nicely situated at the top of Cliff Hill.

Here we can see Winsford nestling in the Exe valley below Bye Hill, with the valley of the Winn winding up to the left.

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.

The original hub of Witham was here, at Chipping Hill. As the town grew, its businesses drifted off to the main London-Colchester road. St Nicholas' was built c1330.

Also in the village, at the foot of a hill where the little River Wey rises, is the celebrated English's wishing well and tea gardens.

There are many memorials in the 400-year-old building to walkers and climbers who have met their deaths on England's highest hills.

William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

This comfortable pub, once an inn, lies under Hurstbourne Hill on what was the Andover turnpike to Newbury. It was near here that William Cobbett stayed with Joseph Blount at Rookery Farm.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high. The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.

This picture gives a fine view up Surgery Hill and across the middle of Rhymney.

Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham's Cross.

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

In the background we can see the funicular railway for those not wanting to make the 485-foot walk up Constitution Hill.