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One stop down the line from Enfield town, Bush Hill Park station was opened in 1880 to service this development by the Northern Estates Company.

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Old Winchelsea was destroyed in storms in 1287, and Edward I founded New Winchelsea as a hill town above its harbour in 1288. However, the harbour silted up and the town never grew as hoped.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

The fountain was removed during road improvements in the 1980s; it was rescued from the council dump by the Old Cornwall Society, and was re-erected near the reservoir on Windmill Hill.

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

This is a view of Central Road, originally called Cheam Common Hill. This area was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s, when a tide of semi- detached housing swept across the fields.

Its derivation is probably literal, in that it may well refer to the gallows which were sited at the top of London Road hill, close to its junction with Evington Lane.

Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.

When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.

The big change is the addition, in the lee of the hill, of a well-designed theatre block by Kenneth W Reed and Associates of Harrow, along with a number of equally well-designed houses.

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

Caterham is in two parts, up the hill where the medieval church is, and Caterham Valley to the east on the valley floor, which grew up when the railway arrived in 1856 - it was in fact a

We move to the third of our three rivers, and go high into the hills to find Colne Water. The area used to be known as Marsden.

The name Borden means 'woodland pasture by the hill'. A number of Roman coins and the foundations of two Roman buildings were dug up at Sutton-Barn here in 1846.

This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building.

A view down the hill towards London, with the Wellington pub on the right sporting its sign depicting the Duke.

Castle Hill is virtually hidden by residential buildings, at the top right-hand side, whilst St Catherine's statue on the hillock dominates the sky line.

Note the William Hill hoarding: this is still a major firm of turf accountants today.

Back in Surrey, the route reaches Haslemere; we look south-west along the High Street into the market place of this small town, with the 1814 Town Hall closing the vista.

Silbury Hill, near Marlborough, is the largest man-made mound in Europe. It was once thought (justifiably at that time) to be a large burial mound for an important Bronze Age chieftain.