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Victorian writers believed Crummock Water to be one of the most beautiful in the Lakes.

Heading back north, we cross the River Yeo and reach Somerton, another medieval market town, this time on a ridge in the Polden Hills and on the south bank of the River Cary, which weaves through the

While the old town up the hill had its origins in the 8th century, the Bexhill everyone knows grew up from the 1880s by the sea as a resort on Earl De La Warr's estate.

Moving east towards Leith Hill, but still south of the woodland that covers the greensand hills, the tour reaches Forest Green, a hamlet scattered around an extensive green.

High up above Todmorden, half of which used to be in Lancashire, we find this small Pennine village with a surprising number of mills for its size.

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.

The Windmill, Argos Hill c1955. This fine post mill of 1835 still tops Argos Hill.

In the absence of a pavement, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

The Lookout at the summit of Box Hill is due to the generosity of Mr Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park.

West of Bruton, Castle Cary is set on the side of the oolite hills of southern Somerset, with Castle Cary Park on Lodge Hill rising steeply behind the church.

Moving on north from Dunsfold, we come to Hascombe, a most attractive and tranquil village set in a curving wooded valley in the greensand hills.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

On the right of the photograph is 7/8 South Brink where Wisbech's most famous daughter, Octavia Hill (1838-1912), was born.

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

The 'Dangerous Bend' sign (left) says it all, though anyone trying to find the hairpin today will need to take a small detour off the straightened B3074 Higher Blandford Road between Corfe Hills

The elegant lamp standard has gone, as have the sun blinds on the house on the left, while Howards House, the building on the right, has lost its top storey and the houses at the foot of the hill have

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

CASTLE HILL has a commanding view of both the landward and the seaward approaches, and it was almost certainly the location of an Iron Age Celtic promontory fort.