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Also in the village, at the foot of a hill where the little River Wey rises, is the celebrated English's wishing well and tea gardens.

There are many memorials in the 400-year-old building to walkers and climbers who have met their deaths on England's highest hills.

William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

This comfortable pub, once an inn, lies under Hurstbourne Hill on what was the Andover turnpike to Newbury. It was near here that William Cobbett stayed with Joseph Blount at Rookery Farm.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high. The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.

This picture gives a fine view up Surgery Hill and across the middle of Rhymney.

Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham's Cross.

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

In the background we can see the funicular railway for those not wanting to make the 485-foot walk up Constitution Hill.

interior is laid out in a series of tableaux depicting scenes from the lives of his characters, while in the garden is the Swiss chalet which the author had imported to the grounds of his home at Gads Hill

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

A mile north-west of here is the Dover's Hill viewpoint, where the famous Cotswold games were formerly held.

Not only does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the

The Zennor Quoit is a chambered tomb on a wind-blown hill. Seven stout boulders once supported a colossal slab roof, eighteen feet across. Sadly, it was desecrated by farmers.

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west. In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

The River Barle appears here little more than a placid stream, but in 1953 a devastating flood swept through Dulverton from the hills above, inundating the bridge and destroying the cottages at the far