Places
36 places found.
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- Burgess Hill, Sussex
- Brierley Hill, West Midlands
- Cotswold Hills, Gloucestershire
- Kelton Hill, Dumfries and Galloway
- Box Hill, Surrey
- Turners Hill, Sussex
- Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
- Biggin Hill, Greater London
- Beacon Hill, Surrey
- Mill Hill, Greater London
- Leith Hill, Surrey
- Scayne's Hill, Sussex
- Cross Hills, Yorkshire (near Silsden)
- Harrow on the Hill, Greater London
- Winchmore Hill, Greater London
- Northwood Hills, Greater London
- Walton on the Hill, Surrey
- Muswell Hill, Greater London
- Clee Hill, Shropshire (near Doddington)
- Berry Hill, Gloucestershire
- Forest Hill, Greater London
- Ide Hill, Kent
- Quantock Hills, Somerset
- Crays Hill, Essex
- Longfield Hill, Kent
- Crockham Hill, Kent
- Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire
- Herne Hill, Greater London
- Amersham on the Hill, Buckinghamshire
- Hill Ridware, Staffordshire
- Tan Hill, Yorkshire
- Forty Hill, Greater London
- Windmill Hill, Sussex
- Boyn Hill, Berkshire
- Wheatley Hill, Durham (near Peterlee)
- Horndon on the Hill, Essex
Photos
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Maps
4,509 maps found.
Books
3 books found. Showing results 1,657 to 3.
Memories
4,101 memories found. Showing results 691 to 700.
A Yokels Tale
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more
A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by
Family Picnics In 1950s
In the 1950s my family made regular summer trips to a scenic and elevated spot somewhere in the general area of Aylesbury for family picnics. I have a few b&w snaps - one of which shows a road wide enough for two ...Read more
A memory of Aylesbury in 1955 by
Chingford Hatch
I remember the Manor pub, it used to have an air raid warning siren on the building. I remember hearing it once, testing it I think as the year was about 1956. I too remember the tea van which had an awning on it in the rain. As ...Read more
A memory of Chingford in 1956 by
An Old House
Alan, can you jog my memory please? As you came down the hill, on the left just before the little Tesco's, there was a small derelict cottage. I can remember creeping in there one day and finding an ornate cast iron fireplace. I went ...Read more
A memory of Bletchley in 1954 by
Re. Betty Hills
I am looking for my sister Betty Hills, taken to Easneye Childern's Home in approximately 1952, later to be adopted by Cyril William Groom and his wife Eileen Mary Groom, her birth mother was Grace Florence Hills [Dec]. Betty ...Read more
A memory of Stanstead Abbotts in 1952 by
Boyhood Memories
I have great memories of Cinderford [Bilson Green areas] from 1953 to 1961 when I was growing up. I remember riding go-carts down the hill. My mother was born in Cinderford [Margaret Hale, married name Hancox and she worked at ...Read more
A memory of Cinderford in 1955 by
My Childhood
My parents were married at Stranton, and I was baptised there. We lived in a neighbouring street, Bower Street, in what would now be regarded as a slum property, with outside toilet and a single tap that was also outside. My lifelong ...Read more
A memory of Hartlepool in 1955 by
Childhood Memories
My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more
A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by
Coming To Devon
We were living in Barry Island in south Wales, I was getting ready to take the 11 plus, one day when I came home from school my dad was waiting to tell me that we were on the move to Devon. We had spent four years on the Nells ...Read more
A memory of East Prawle in 1946 by
Newbottle Village
I remember coming from school and running up to the hillside fields helping Wheightman to load the hay onto his tractors and building the haystacks on North Pasture, off down to the yard pond looking for frogs and newts ...Read more
A memory of Newbottle in 1956 by
Captions
1,924 captions found. Showing results 1,657 to 1,680.
Climbing out of the Vale of Aylesbury northwards onto the Brill-Winchendon Hills, we reach Upper Winchendon, where the Marquess of Wharton built a vast country house around 1700.
Looking eastwards towards Allington Hill (left) this view has changed almost out of all recognition.
Here we are looking up School Hill towards what was the New Inn, kept by Albert Howard, who started supplying fuel for the new motorcar, perhaps in addition to beer for the passengers.
Blacko Tower (just visible on the top of the hill), marking the boundary of Pendle Forest, was built by Jonathan Stansfield in 1891.
An ancient settlement, Castle Hill near the church of St Wilfrid is the site of both Saxon and Roman fortifications.
The castle is unusual in that it was built in the lower part of the village; it is now overlooked by the church at Kirby Hill.
Do not shout too loud about it, though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the
The name Borden means 'woodland pasture by the hill'. A number of Roman coins and the foundations of two Roman buildings were dug up at Sutton-Barn here in 1846.
Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.
Its derivation is probably literal, in that it may well refer to the gallows which were sited at the top of London Road hill, close to its junction with Evington Lane.
The big change is the addition, in the lee of the hill, of a well-designed theatre block by Kenneth W Reed and Associates of Harrow, along with a number of equally well-designed houses.
Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.
In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'
Caterham is in two parts, up the hill where the medieval church is, and Caterham Valley to the east on the valley floor, which grew up when the railway arrived in 1856 - it was in fact a
We move to the third of our three rivers, and go high into the hills to find Colne Water. The area used to be known as Marsden.
This is a view of Central Road, originally called Cheam Common Hill. This area was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s, when a tide of semi- detached housing swept across the fields.
When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.
Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.
'When the evening sun falls over St Davids Cathedral, gilding the old stone, shining on the gentle green hills, the white twisting roads and the little farms, the smallest “city” in the kingdom lies lost
The signal cabin at the bottom of the hill survives with the modern station to the right of it. The station was originally on the left-hand side of the road beyond the level crossing.
East Park was developed after 1880 with terraces of artisan housing, mostly built by James Longley and Sons who moved here from Turners Hill.
The Scottish army clashed with the English at Halidon Hill and was routed. Berwick was forced to surrender.
There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up on the top of the Downs.
The new housing built for the workers can be seen rising up the hill like a tide.
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