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With its rusticated ground storey and ashlar-faced upper storeys, designed by Noel Hill in 1933, it fails to match in design quality other police stations such as Hammersmith by Donald McMorran, 1938

Tucked under East Hill are the towers of the outer bailey around to the outer gatehouse (right).

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

At the top of the hill is Bleak House, a former inn of c1540.

It is said that the name Cotswold originated because of the cotes (sheep pens) that were found across the wolds (rolling hills).

The words 'Old Bank' inscribed over the entrance of the building in the centre refer to Waldron and Hill, the first bank to open on this site in 1780.

Harrow Park winds away to the east of the High Street, past one or two rather grand houses, to arrive at Deynecourt at the foot of the hill.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

Even before the docks opened, timber-carrying ships from all over Europe would come into these sheltered waters near Penwortham Hill and unload.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant

The Main Line of the Stourbridge Canal swung south and then east around Brierley Hill to meet up with the Dudley Canal at Black Delph Locks.The Dudley Canal passed through Round Oak Steel Works and

This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey. Here we see the broad market place, with its pleasing facades of 17th- and 18th-century slate-roofed buildings.

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

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.

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.

tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and bungalows filled

This discreet little settlement in the parish of Stanton St Gabriel occupies a web of small lanes on the south-facing slopes of Hardown Hill and derives its name from three Old English words: 'mor' (

The main road from London originally climbed Angel Hill's ridge, but in the early 19th century a cutting was made.

Looking west from the chalk hills east of the town, undeveloped to this day, Chesham nestles in the deep-cut valley of the River Chess.