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The fair on St Giles Hill was one of the largest in Europe, attracting many traders.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland. Donkeys ply up and down the steep-stepped street, carrying goods on panniers.

We are looking from the slopes of Brough Hill, the site of a Roman fort which has been extensively excavated. In the background are the fells of Wensleydale, which still shelter this lovely village.

The main street of Cross Hills in the Aire Valley near Keighley was virtually deserted when the Frith photographer called.

At the bottom of Wells Hill we can see the railway station, which came with the Bath and Bristol line in 1874, succeeding a canal and tramway for carrying coal.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

Helston is pleasantly sited on a hill, above a picturesque valley. It was once a walled settlement with a castle.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

A superb view looking up the Western Cleddau into Haverfordwest with the castle in the center and the tower of St Thomas a Becket on the hill overlooking it.

On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

The fair on St Giles Hill was one of the largest in Europe, attracting many traders.

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.

Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871

It moved to its present location on the brow of a hill on the Kingsland side of the river in 1882. Among its old boys were Charles Darwin and Judge Jeffreys.

Pier Hill is busy with pedestrians but they seem untroubled by cars.

The traffic bollards at the junction of Whyteleafe Hill and Hillbury Road have been replaced by a roundabout.

The seafront terraces and hills behind remain much the same today, and boating has grown ever more popular in the Dyfi estuary, which is fringed by wooded banks.

Situated on a hill overlooking the town, Christ Church, or the Jesse Haworth Memorial Church, was designed by Lawrence Booth and built in the late 1880s.

The narrow alley between the houses leads off to Bull Hill.

This new post office has been opened recently at the corner of Baytree Hill and Windsor Place.

This shows the view from Windmill Hill looking towards St Mary's Parish Church, centre right. There is no indication in this photograph of the dreadful conditions existing in the Queen Street area.

This view looks north up Portobello market in Notting Hill's Portobello Road. To the left is Elgin Crescent, and on the right is Colville Terrace.