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We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

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.

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

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).

(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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

It is washday again; this time the linen is pegged on a line on Tate Hill sands. Washing machines were almost unknown at this date, and owned only by rich people.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

The picture was taken from Castle Hill, the site of an old manor house lookout, probably also used in Roman times during the construction of Wade's Causeway over the moors past Goathland.

Poole Grammar School vacated the building, which had quadrangle at the rear, for new buildings on Gravel Hill which were opened by Princess Margaret in 1966.

The distant view is north- eastwards to Cain's Folly and Stonebarrow Hill, above Charmouth.

Rising on Lamb Hill Fell, the river now runs into the Stock Reservoir and then resumes its wandering in North Lancashire.