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The environs are very beautiful, and comprise one of the finest reaches of the Thames, flanked by gentle hills or cliffs covered with hanging woods.

As a reminder of Tetbury's wool trade heritage, an annual woolsack race is held up the town's steep Gunstool Hill, each competitor carrying a burden of wool weighing 65 pounds.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

An evocative picture of the originally 11th-century church of St Mary and its blossoming churchyard in its lovely isolated setting overlooking the duck pond with good views towards Offham Hill.

The beacon on Pendle Hill is said to be Saxon, and the field known as Kirkacre was in existence when Alfred the Saxon was chieftain.

This fine study of Goudhurst looks up the High Street. The Vine Hotel stands on the left, whilst halfway up the hill is a horse-drawn wagon.

St Stephen's Church is prominent on Rosslyn Hill above the tranquil water of the pond, which is disturbed only by a few fishermen and rather more observers.

Peascod Street lies at the centre of Windsor, at the top of the hill. The town centre is characterised by its streets of essentially Victorian and Georgian buildings.

A classic rural Irish scene of this period, a pleasing main street, devoid of any traffic save for a farmer chugging up the hill in his tractor.

Children are trying their luck at fishing in the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Junction Canal. Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

The Forestry Commission planted different species to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. At Kinsley Wood the ER was planted on both sides of the hill.

The gateway to the Abbey and the commercial edge of the secular town face each other across Angel Hill.

The church is a short distance from the Nower, another one of Dorking's parkland areas.

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond. The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

The twin villages of Cawsand and Kingsand nestle into the hills on the west of Cawsand Bay; they were once, like so many Cornish villages, a centre for smugglers.

We are looking down from Castle Park to Castle Hill and the city beyond. The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

The loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

This is now called Kennel Lane, and the building is that of the Windlesham Institute. The road to the right is Hatton Hill Road, and leads to the London Road.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here, and installed his daughter as abbess.

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

Just inland of the sand dunes is a golf course - it was established in 1885, and may be the oldest in Wales. Beyond it is possible to see the Dovey and the hills of Merionethshire.

The ruins of the abbey are visible in the distance. This photograph shows how Tintern nestles in amongst the surrounding hills.

This is the village of Sandbank on the western side of Holy Loch. On the far side are the houses of Kilmun and the heights of Stronchullin Hill, Beinn Ruadh and Creachan Mor.

This view looks south down the hill to the village. The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.