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Here, those staying in Royal Terrace or at The Royal Hotel, could walk in peace, or linger for a while on one of the benches provided.

There were busier days here before the mines closed around the turn of the century. To the right, Newbridge Hill descends to the Tamar crossing into Devon, with a large chapel on the bend.

This picturesque corner of Lymington includes Quay Hill, with Captains Row on the right. Note the typical 1950s sign on the left - 'station and motor car ferry.'

In late Victorian and early Edwardian times, this part of the village was regarded as a select residential area. The turning to the right off St Bride's Hill leads down to the Glen.

The church stands halfway up a hill overlooking the village rooftops and contains a large and impressive Norman font.The chancel arch is 13th-century, and the church contains several memorials to

This general vista looks south to the hills above Penarth. The house, barely visible behind the thick hedgerows, is of recent construction in stucco with tiled roof.

Bridgnorth, as a fortified hill-top site, dates from Saxon times.

The ponies are grazing on Waun y Pound Common; Ebbw Vale College is behind them and Newtown is in the background.

Large 19th-century houses line the road on the far side of the Common on Chaters Hill. In the grass on this side of the house on the right lies the mediaeval maze.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

This is still one of Gorleston's most popular hotels, and nicely situated at the top of Cliff Hill.

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.

Woodbury is one of Devon's largest parishes, and it occupies the great vale between Woodbury Common and the flood plains of the Exe.

On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

Not much more than a stone's throw from Jack Straw's Castle, the original Old Bull and Bush can be seen on the right of shot.

This photograph successfully shows the long incline of Perrymount Road. The bus coming up the hill would have already passed the recreation ground.

Those people who could afford it were, already in the 1800s, establishing their homes beyond the old town of Runcorn on the higher ground around Runcorn Hill.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill.