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Langdon Hill can be seen on the skyline (right of centre) at the heart of what is now the Golden Cap Estate of the National Trust. Here the River Winniford trickles through the shingle int the sea.

1320, the last of the family that had held the manor since the 12th century and had given the village the second part of its name; the other part, 'hyrst', is Anglo-Saxon for 'a wooded hill

In the distance, high on the hill, stands the abbey, and to the west is the Old Bell Hotel.

The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site.

It is built on the side of a hill, and a flight of steps leads up from the nave to the altar. Although the building dates from the 14th century, the foundations are Saxon.

Many other shops have disappeared from the hill as dormitory residents opt for the under-one-roof convenience of the local supermarkets.

Along with Silbury Hill, it is a World Heritage Site. It was recently voted the nation's third most spiritual place.

A field known as Joiners Hill on the south corner of St Nicholas Lane at the entrance from High Road is shown on the 1839 Laindon Tithe Map, and it is thought that the route via Laindon High

The Palace was built to rival the Crystal Palace on Sydenham Hill in South London.

Our pictures of Brierley Hill were taken in the 1960s, a time when Round Oak was one of the most modern steel plants in the West Midlands and capable of producing in excess of 250,000 tonnes a year

The bandstand, left, opens out into a huge amphitheatre for musical concerts; built in 1926, it replaced the original less convenient stand at the top of Lowe Hill.

Our pictures of Brierley Hill were taken in the 1960s, a time when Round Oak was one of the most modern steel plants in the West Midlands and capable of producing in excess of 250,000 tonnes a year

Look carefully at the unified appearance of this cul-de-sac as it backs onto Bush Hill Golf course.

Herring, coal and lime also came up the hill from the harbour. The donkeys were even used to collect the refuse.

Lynton perches at the top of a 1-in-4 hill that leads down to Lynmouth. Visitors can also reach Lynmouth by way of a spectacular cliff railway that descends a sheer cliff of 500 feet.

As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

A Saxon hill village, known as Gumeninga Hergae, or the shrine of Guma's people, in 767, it has now become well and truly subsumed into suburbia, and into Betjeman folklore through his poem of the same

The site, which included the town, is on a steep-sided mound, thought to be an Iron Age hill fort.

The lorry climbing the hill belonged to Grabham's Transport. This view is south-eastwards, towards Bridport, from Gear's Garage with its AA and RAC signs (far right).

The church nestles halfway up the hill, surrounded by trees, and facing outwards to the town. It was built as a Chapel of Ease to Blackburn.

Rye sits huddled around a small hill, on the top of which stands St Mary's Church with its distinctive squat Norman tower.

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).

Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill. Lady Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister, built the house between 1615 and 1621.

Further up the hill is the bow-fronted Three Cups Hotel (centre).