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The river Exe from Beacon Hill. This fashionable area was home to Lady Nelson after her estrangement from the Admiral. By the time this picture was taken, the holiday business was well established.

Rockingham stands on a steep hill above the River Welland; from the summit you can look out over five counties. Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street.

Though described in the mid 19th century as 'a poor town lying among hills', Stratton with its narrow streets is blessed with many fine old houses.

This local landmark stands on Fish Hill. Broadway Tower is a 65 feet high folly built in the 18th century by the 6th Earl of Coventry.

This impressive hill figure in tribute to the King, showing him riding on a white horse, was carved in 1808 at the bidding of John Rainier, a local worthy.

Robinswood Hill once served the city with water via Scriven's conduit. It is accessed via Reservoir Road, off Eastern Avenue.

Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge. The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate.

Whalley means 'the clearing or field by the hill', and we can see how close the hill, known as Whalley Nab, is from our photograph.

The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian

The Spain may have been named after Spanish wool merchants who gathered here to trade for wool and cloth, and Music Hill is where 18th-century military bands played.

Near the village are the remains of a sizeable Iron Age hill-fort.

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.

Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

The castle is superbly situated a few miles to the north of the city, on Cave Hill overlooking Belfast Lough. It was built in 1870 by the Third Marquess of Donegal and was given to the city in 1934.

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

Pewsey is a small town in the middle of the Vale that bears its name, noted for its white horse cut into the downland at Milk Hill.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.

Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

St Mary's church and the ruins of Whitby Abbey stand on the hill overlooking the harbour.

Windmill Hill is just visible in the background.

This is the view from the road on the western side of the hill.

The photograph shows the Royal Lodge as seen from the southern side of Snow Hill. It has changed very little since 1937 and is the home of the Queen Mother when she visits Windsor.