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Trees, sailing yachts and the foreground stone wall contrast with the darker hills overlooking Llandudno in the distance.

This steep hill was always a challenge to even the best team of horses. Chideock was bypassed towards the end of the last century.

Bethesda House was once a Wesleyan Meeting House for the benefit of older folk who found it difficult to walk up the hill to the Wesleyan Chapel.

The limestone from the hills is used to build the farm cottages of this peaceful part of Yorkshire.

New Street is a continuation of Castle Hill and High Street, and leads to Coventry Road.

The Square is the natural focus of this former iron-mining town on the western fringe of Ennerdale and the Lake District hills.

The Duntisbournes (Abbots, Middle, Rouse and Leer) cluster in the dips and dells and cling to the slopes of these green hills, where horses and skylarks set them apart from the busy modern

From Reeds Hill this view towards the Crowthorne Road shows, on the left, buildings that were part of the Churchill House complex.

Another view of Skelton taken from 'the hills', showing the distinctive white façade of the Methodist Church on Green Road.

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

This row of delightful cottages is on South Church Street, the hill out of town. The gas street light on the left is now replaced by an electric one.

A quiet hamlet on the north side of Kit Hill near Callington. Such a scene, but with an improved road and without the figure by the wall, would still be familiar today in many rural parts of Cornwall.

St Thomas Becket church is at the east end of Cliffe High Street, which runs west to cross the Ouse into School Hill and Lewes proper.

The historic heart of old Winchester, once the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, is seen here from the heights of St Giles hill.

Branthwaite Brow is one of the three streets which meet Kent Street as it leads up the steep hill opposite Miller Bridge.The others are Finkle Street and Stramongate.

The long village of Downderry stands precariously on a shelf between the inland hills and a sea-washed cliff edge.

Unfortunately, when the bypass was built it actually went right through the village, cutting off the original settlement on the hill with its church from the later roadside settlement.

Over the hills in the distance lie Ilfracombe and the Bristol Channel.

The Old Vicarage can be seen on the hill (centre).

A lone horse and cart trundles up the hill, but the then unsurfaced road is safe enough for children to play in.

The river Exe from Beacon Hill. This fashionable area was home to Lady Nelson after her estrangement from the Admiral. By the time this picture was taken, the holiday business was well established.

Rockingham stands on a steep hill above the River Welland; from the summit you can look out over five counties. Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street.

Though described in the mid 19th century as 'a poor town lying among hills', Stratton with its narrow streets is blessed with many fine old houses.

This local landmark stands on Fish Hill. Broadway Tower is a 65 feet high folly built in the 18th century by the 6th Earl of Coventry.