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Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

At the top of Church Hill we find this Swedish-style church, built in 1902 at a cost of £2678.

This hill is an outlier of the Chiltern chalk rearing through the London clay.

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

On the left is The Hill View Hotel, one of several Hitchin establishments that catered for cyclists.

Best Outfitters are in the three-storey building, beyond which the Lily Hotel projects towards the road, with Colmer's Hill being the distinctive hilltop (centre).

Their canted full-height bay windows step down the hill in an elegant rhythm.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.

The village is a stopping-point on the way north or south along the coast, with just a prehistoric burial chamber and some beautiful hill walks to delay the traveller - unless you were making for the large

Nestling just under the hills surrounding the North York Moors is the old settlement of Ampleforth, built around the early abbey of St Lawrence.

We can see that the village lies on a slope; Pendle Hill rises behind.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

This view was taken from Castle Hill looking north. The Argyll Hotel continues to attract guests, and the scene today is much as is shown here, except for the fashions and the absence of horses.

The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.

The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.

A lone horse and cart trundles up the hill, and children are enjoying playing in the dust of the unsurfaced road.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

The bridge in our photograph is the Greyhound Road Bridge; it replaced the very first bridge, the medieval Old Bridge, which led directly to Bridge Hill and China Lane, which was only 8ft wide.

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

At St Mary's Church, on the hill, there is a cross commemorating 43 hop pickers who died of cholera in 1849.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

The white statue atop the ridge is of Britannia; tradition says that when she hears St Mary's clock strike thirteen, she will come down from the roof and walk up the hill to church.