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In this region the fertile farmland ascends to the top of the hill, and it is pleasing to note hedgerows, not stone walls, dividing the fields.

Crown Hill was the setting for an unusual wager in 1936: a Grays confectioner was bet that he could not cycle backwards up the 1-in-7 road.

Summer sunshine has brought out the flowery frocks, but the ladies will still not venture out without their hats.

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.

Dominating the east on a hill next to Great Harwood is the Roman Catholic Church of St Hubert, an unusual dedication.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

Fifty years ago the main A217 road through Lower Kingswood had not yet been widened.

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

There is still plenty of stone, although not the wonderful golden oolitic limestones from Ham Hill and the far south of the county; here we have the Blue Lias, a thin limestone which can only

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

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

In the background we can see the funicular railway for those not wanting to make the 485-foot walk up Constitution Hill.

The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.

Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881

This most attractive of towns is sets amongst woods and gentle rolling hills.

The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.

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

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

By 1903, the Red Lion, seen on the far left, has replaced a row of fishermen's cottages, but those beyond mostly survive, one being now The Old Harbour House Tea Rooms.

We are looking from the Beacon Hill area.

Prestbury lies under the great bluff of Cleeve Hill, the destination of the tram, not the only mode of Edwardian travel in this photograph!

Not seen in this photograph are cottages and houses off to the right that overlook the pond - their gardens front directly onto it.