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This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

This picture shows it being drawn up the steep hill by its hidden cable system - the same design as that used in San Francisco.

In this panoramic view of the Golden Valley, the mill chimneys are visible in the background; the workers' cottages are on the lower slopes of the hill, and the canal winds its way along the valley

The wooded slopes in the background are on the Staffordshire bank of the Dove, and rise to Air Cottage on the top of the hill opposite.

In its early years the main entrance to Charterhouse was along Peperharow Road, seen here from the water tower on Frith Hill. Development with houses for staff was rapid.

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'.

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.

The town lies at the foot of an 800ft hill with gradients in some streets of 1 in 4. This shelter aids the growth of luxuriant vegetation in the steep

The town centre of Coniston shows a quieter scene than today, with just one car on the road and a pair of ramblers (right) setting out purposefully for the hills.

The view looks down Cornforth Hill towards Bridge Street; the whitewashed building was the Oak Tree Inn.

In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.

Bishop's Cleeve has now become something of a small town, a dormitory for nearby Cheltenham, but it still has an attractive setting under the slopes of Cleeve Hill.

Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP. This is now St Giles School.

In the centre is a terrace called Cornforth Hill.

This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre). There are several privies half-way up the back gardens (left).

This is the very top of Market Street as we turn out of Castle Hill. The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street.

Travelling towards Church Hill we come to Brackendale Road; this is a pretty road, with many pine trees. Before the opening of the M3, it used to run right through to the Portsmouth Road.

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.

A superb haymaking scene which shows the manpower once required on the land at this hill-top farm, to the south west of Haslemere.

From here we can see how the picturesque fishing village has been crammed into the flatter land between the sea and a steep hill.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the River Cherwell, Oxford creates the impression of sitting on an island.

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

The lead-mines are long gone; by the 1950s the town's economy was centred upon hill farming and a growing tourist trade.