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An earlier view of the entrance to Dovedale, again showing the donkeys, and the slopes of Butser Hill rising to the left of the photograph, with the crags of Thorpe Cloud to the right.

Woodbury Common is crowned by the massive Iron Age hill-fort of Woodbury Castle, visible from miles around and one of the best viewpoints in Devon.

The Cotswold Hills Golf Club was founded in 1902 by Harold Webb, who owned a brickworks in Cheltenham.

To the right is Brassknocker Hill.

It is difficult to pinpoint the viewpoint (possibly Bilberry Hill) and to be sure which reservoirs we are looking at here.

The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.

Great Western Railway motor buses like the one struggling up the hill past the Cornish Bank were introduced in 1903, but it was many years before the horse disappeared from the streets.

However, towards the end of the 19th century, coaching was revived as a romantic alternative to the age of steam, and here is one such revival climbing Reigate hill.

The free-standing 'army hut' wards of the military hospital in the grounds of Frensham Heights (then known as Frensham Hill) during the First World War.

At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill. Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction.

The path extends south right to the recreation park, and to the north, by crossing the bridge to the right hand bank, into the area known as Scot's Garden at the foot of Castle Hill.

The M20 now cuts directly across this picture, and new factory and housing developments fill the scene.

Crays Hill is a thoroughfare settlement in the parish of Ramsden Crays—the name ultimately coming from the 12th-century de Crei family.

Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

Here we have a closer view of the house on the crossroads before going down Mill Hill. It has a varied brick pattern for the walls, mullion windows and a tiled roof.

The countryside scenery around and about, however, is beautiful, as can be seen from the lofty hill that acts as a backdrop.

This photograph shows how near the hills and open countryside are to the towns around here. Oswaldtwistle Moor, to the south of the town, is a love- ly unspoilt area of outstanding beauty.

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Appleton-le-Street's hill-top parish church of All Saints is famous for its tower, the lower part of which shows signs of Saxon work.

Standing at the bottom of the notoriously steep climb of Porlock Hill, the Ship Inn appears little changed today, despite the removal of its attractive wooden porches.

It therefore changed to St John's Hill - much more elegant.

St Bartholomew's enjoys an elevated position, possibly the site of a prehistoric fort, at the corner of Church Hill and Vicarage Road.

Prominent above Hawkshead is St Michael and All Angels' Church, of which William Wordsworth wrote '..I saw a snow white church upon her hill, sit like a throned lady…'

A popular destination of walkers, it was built to allow the miners of Pentre Du to reach the mines in the hills; a mile west of Betws-y-Coed, paths lead through the meadows to this steeply-inclined gangway