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The latter, having walked across the hills from Bridport to visit his friend Francis Turner Palgrave, asked to be taken to the most interesting place in Lyme.

The entire heart of the town has been moved over the hill to a new site, so that the little that remains of the old High Street is now totally run down.

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

The church and a cluster of old houses are at the top of the hill, and more old buildings are on the river bank, east and west of the Bognor Road river bridge.

The 1890s terrace with its four gabled full-height bay windows steps down the hill; the left-hand one on the corner of Outwood Lane is now no longer a Barclays Bank, but the offices of financial consultants

This view captures well the disparate suburban nature of Cobham's High Street before we reach the most attractive River Hill and Mill Road, which stretch along the banks of the River Mole

Beyond are Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill (top right).

Beyond the bathing machines, the newer town is on the left, the white cottages of Quay Town are on the right, and the old town climbs the hill towards the medieval church with its tall 15th-century

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

Beyond is part of Lord Burghley's Hospital, then the river, and up the hill in Stamford proper the elegant 160 foot tower and spire of St Mary's church, a superb 13th-century Early English Gothic structure

A mother restrains an excited dog from investigating the photographer's activity (right), while her offspring watches from her hooded perambulator; they are on the hill leading towards the 11th-century

George Fox's vision on Pendle Hill in 1640 led to the founding of the Society of Friends.

At 464 feet above sea level the tor has a commanding position, and was used by the Celts as the site for an early hill-fort.

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

Gatesgarth is a place name which comes from Old Norse language, as do many in the higher hills of the Lake District. It means 'the pass where the goats go'.

Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.

The Poultry Sale Yard entrance on Market Hill is the wide doorway beyond the awning, right of centre.

This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.

A hill figure of a white horse was re-cut in the escarpment in 1924; it is visible from Cuckmere Haven. Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.

Although the busy A24 now thunders past the old forge at the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with

This is one of the numerous large country homes which were constructed in this favoured part of the Surrey hills during Queen Victoria's reign.

The station and crossing is at the bottom of the hill, and next to the Station Tavern (centre right) is now a new signal box.

The village of Palnackie is set in a region of wooded hills and streams.