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High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

On Mrs Grevill's death in 1942, the estate was willed to the National Trust and became their Southern Area Office. General Sir E Hamley was another who was afraid of an imminent invasion.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

In November 1959 the council gave support for a 'skyscraper block of Continental styled luxury flats' at the bottom of Beach Hill – a 10-storey block heralded as 'the most modern in the country', comparable

(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped

The town is situated on one of Norfolk's rare hills, and some early houses had wells dug 105ft deep to obtain water.

The Verneys of Claydon House in Middle Claydon, now a National Trust house, bought Steeple Claydon in 1705 from the Chaloner family, who are commemorated in the village road, Chaloners Hill.

At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

At one time the churchyard wall decayed, rainwater washed the soil away from the graves, and bones were taken down the hill, even into the water.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool Hill

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

Crown Street connects the Bullock Market and Market Hill. It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.

Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground. Here, too, is the Miller's Tomb.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

The main shopping centre has moved up the hill to Leigh Broadway but this High Street is still popular with its cafes, public houses and antiques shops.

Westway leads us up to the elevated village dominated at the crest by a castle and Crake Hall.

Although yet early, the mill by the roadside is already at work, and the forge of the blacksmith's shop at the Reigate Road corner is in full blast.

Opposite is the Dorking Halls, designed by Percy W Meredith in Art Deco style and opened in January 1931 (see 87292 opposite).

originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool Hill

This view shows Eype Mouth, looking westwards to what is now a National Trust skyline, with Ridge Cliff and Doghouse Hill rising into the 508-feet summit of Thorncombe Beacon (centre).

Certainly there would have been confusion between the original title and the burgeoning Dunstable Road just visible in the photograph beyond Christ Church at the top of the hill.