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Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area. It was rebuilt in the 15th century, then badly damaged during the Civil War, and rebuilt again.

Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn. It runs along the top of a ridge and is prehistoric in origin.

There was also an annual pony sale, attended by travellers, on Market Hill.

In the background at the top of the hill we can see the tower of the parish church of St Cuthbert, which replaced the original now ruinous church of St Mary on the famous Panorama Walk.

The buildings on the hill are the upper part of Brimscombe village, with Walls Quarry and Burleigh to the right.

This sprawling riverside village lies between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

But the real give-aways are the large TV aerials, doubtless struggling to get any reception – Machynlleth is surrounded by verdant hills.

He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

This view looks across the ornate, wrought iron gates of the Ladybower Dam towards the newly planted regimented forestry on the slopes of Win Hill.

A little higher up on a hill, peeping over the top of the Royal Marine Restaurant (far right) is the Trinity Theatre, which today houses the Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society.

We are looking back up Crown Hill, with the sign of the Crown on the left.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century.

It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and

The church on a hill commands the scene; it has a 14th-century tower and a slender spire, with a newer nave and chancel designed by the Victorian architect G F Bodley.

Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

This famous and picturesque town is situated on a hill above the River Blackwater.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

Overlooking the River Asker and Happy Island, north-westwards to Watton Hill (centre) as a Great Western Railway pannier tank engine (right) steams out of Bridport Station (far left) with a goods train

The A1004 swings right into Alderman's Hill past the railway station, and the outstanding building facing the camera is of 1904.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

Hill's, now G & M's restaurant, has since lost its semi-circular window and parapet for a gable.

Thus the name of the village may also derive from the words 'dun', meaning 'a hill', and 'dwr', 'water'.