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This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall. The Methodist chapel (1822), next, is still used.

The spacious rectory is situated across the road from the church on Scale Hill. The old rectory was higher up the hill on the same side and facing the Market Place.

For a few years around the turn of the 20th century, Worplesdon's cricket pitch was at the foot of Rickford Hill on the edge of the common.

The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

This shows the northern slope of Capstone Hill and its junction with Ropery Meadow (centre, in front of the chapel) as it was before any development took place.

The earliest mention of the chapel of Great Harwood is in a deed of 1335. The church nestles halfway up the hill, surrounded by trees, and facing outwards to the town.

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).

On the left we can see the pediment and roof of the Baptist Chapel, built in 1856 on the recently-constructed Station Hill.

This compact village is situated on the main coast road north of Aberystwyth; it grew up to serve the workers of the nearby lead mines and woollen mills.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

Down the hill are Alice Cottage, Chideock Court and Chapel Cottage. Trees partially obscure Bridge Cottage, By the Stream and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.

Crakehall, 1 mile north of Bedale, is two villages in one - this is Little Crakehall, with its race (left) for three corn and flax mills.

It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.

Further down the hill, part of Butter Row Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is visible.

Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford.

To the right is the Gothic school chapel of 1854 designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, while further to the right, but out of shot, is the library of 1861, also by Scott, and recently sensitively re-ordered

With such a large working class it is no surprise that Wycombe's traditions of religious dissent continued; there were numerous nonconformist churches and chapels built in the town.