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To the left, the stone ramparts of Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort can be seen on the very top of the hill.

Beyond The Strait, Steep Hill commences with The Jew's House, a Norman stone house of the 1170s, before climbing more steeply up towards the cathedral and castle on the top of the hill.

A borough since around 1100, its name derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus' or steep hill. It is a delightful Ham stone-built town, hardly larger now than a village.

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Standing 533 metres above sea level, this hill is made up of a stone known as dhustone (from the Welsh word 'dhu', meaning black).

Glorious views across the Severn Vale to the Malvern Hills add to the charms of The Rising Sun, which has long been a favourite watering hole for the racing fraternity.

This view was taken further down the hill and looking south.

The cottage on the left has gone, but the stone wall to the street survives, as does the cottage with two bay windows beyond, Hill Cottage.

The village, on the eastern side of Garsington Hill, to the east of Oxford, boasts many stone-built houses and picturesque cottages.

Trees, sailing yachts and the foreground stone wall contrast with the darker hills overlooking Llandudno in the distance.

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

The Great Stone Inn is one of Northfield’s older drinking establishments, as is the Old Bell House, Bell Hill.

The name of the delightful Ham stone village of Montacute derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus', or 'steep hill'.

One of the three surviving 15th-century entrances to the cathedral precincts, College Gate stands at the foot of Boley Hill, and is banded with stone and flint, with a timber-framed upper storey.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.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 Great Stone Inn is one of Northfield's older drinking establishments, as is the Old Bell House, Bell Hill.

It was designed by Anthony Salvin and built using stone from the nearby Runcorn Hill quarries.

Standing on a limestone hill, Dudley Castle dominates the town.

The winding road out of Newlyn rounds Penlee Point then dips down to this celebrated fishing village that nestles within stout stone breakwaters. At its back it is fringed by hills.

Situated at the top of a steepish hill on the road from Heswall, the entrance to Beech Farm is on the right in our picture.

In medieval times Holcombe was built up a hill to escape the plague in the old village below. It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way.