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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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

This junction was the tram centre, with branches leading off to Old Town, left to Gorse Hill and right to Rodbourne.

Further down the hill can be seen the speech rooms by William Burges.

The statue is of the fourth Marquis of Downshire, the 11th descendant of the Hills of Hillsborough.

A range of 16th-century houses and cottages descends the hill towards a central crossroads, notably Old Forge, Bowries and Ricksteddle.

The tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales

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.

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 tranquillity of the Vale of Ewyas and its surrounding hills must have appealed to the Augustinian monks who founded a church here in 1108, possibly on a site where St David, the patron saint of Wales