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'When the evening sun falls over St Davids Cathedral, gilding the old stone, shining on the gentle green hills, the white twisting roads and the little farms, the smallest “city” in the kingdom lies lost

The Scottish army clashed with the English at Halidon Hill and was routed. Berwick was forced to surrender.

There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.

Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area. The original castle is thought to have been built by Bertram de Verdun, who also founded the Cistercian abbey at Croxden.

The new housing built for the workers can be seen rising up the hill like a tide.

The camera looks from the High Street towards Holly Hill, and on towards West Heath.

the underground station and the parish church, this is a wonderful neo-Tudor pub of 1936 by A E Sewell; he also designed the Crown and Anchor in High Street, Chipping Barnet, and the Goat near Forty Hill

The signal cabin at the bottom of the hill survives with the modern station to the right of it. The station was originally on the left-hand side of the road beyond the level crossing.

East Park was developed after 1880 with terraces of artisan housing, mostly built by James Longley and Sons who moved here from Turners Hill.

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

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 flag poles on the hill were used for gale warnings, signals for ships and flags for special occasions such as Royal birthdays.

This spacious boulevard is in fact Beast Market Hill, and was just that in years past. On the right is the former Ossington Coffee Palace.

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

It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.

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.

Horn Hill leads from Whitwell south-westwards to Kimpton.

County Down embraces the scene from the Copeland Islands until the Hollywood Hills merge with White Head. The far view is completed with the full run of the Rhinns of Galloway.

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