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Hidden among the trees in the centre of our photograph is a foot (and animal) bridge just a few miles outside Dunsop Bridge.The hill on the left is called Knot or Sugar Loaf.

Until the 1960s, Charlton Kings railway station stood half a mile up the hill from this spot - its site is now an industrial park.

On the hill stood Preesall village school. Like Baines Charity School in Poulton, the children held a barring-out day once a year when by tradition the master was locked out.

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

New substantial dwellings for the town's burgeoning middle class rise up towards Beacon Hill.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

The steep, turfy slopes of its East and West Hills have recently been made more accessible by means of a lift. The bathing here is excellent in every way.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The castle, much enlarged by the Dukes of Norfolk, along with their Roman Catholic cathedral, dominates this picturesque hill town, giving it a distinctly French character in distant views.The bridge over

The non-slate rocks form huge tips of waste material that scar the hills around, creating a surreal and fantastic landscape.

The carefully tended vegetable garden ascending the hill behind shows how important self-sufficiency was in these remote hamlets, in the days before motor vehicles and supermarkets.

Here the photographer looks across the High Street westwards from Church Headland Lane with the start of Market Hill to the left of the thatched cottage, Cobwebs.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

The terrace stepping down the hill on the left is dated 1880. The pump (just visible to the right of the steps) has now been joined by a Coronation seat.

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.