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The Friday market was discontinued at the end of the 18th century.

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.

The north side of the Market Place has seen many recent changes: The Marquis of Granby, partly dating from 1695, was restored in 1999 and the paint removed from its stonework.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

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

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

The famous church at Hawkshead sits on a little knoll above the village. William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

This was taken from the corner of the churchyard. The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

The stretch of buildings on the other side of the station were once the original Company Shop (of the Rhymney Iron Company), which was set up and strictly run by Andrew Buchan - there was another similar

The laying out of Dudley Zoo took account of the nature of Castle Hill, and most of the animal enclosures were fitted into the natural or previously formed features.

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.