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The motor car is a fitting reminder that in 1902 Bexhill held the first motor racing trials in England, on a course leading from Galley Hill to the De La Warr Parade.

In the distance, a 100ft tower, a replica of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse, surmounts Hoad Hill.

Now known as the Bear of Rodborough, this has been a stopping place for centuries, and played an important part as a collecting point for carrier services in this area of steep hills.

Looking south down Scale Hill, once known as Church Lane. The first building on the right is the tramps boarding house, on the site of the Chequers Inn.

Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.

Surrounded by rolling hills, this has to be one of the most beautiful villages in Oxfordshire.

The hilliness of these parishes was often cited as the cause of the 'Pure Air and Good Health' lauded in the property advertisements.

Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn. It runs along the top of a ridge and is prehistoric in origin.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

Thankfully, this view is not greatly changed today, though Great Malvern has crept further across the hills and the suburbs in the middle distance have expanded.

The village of Braunston lies on a hill overlooking a picturesque stretch of the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain's most famous inland waterways.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

Botley Station (entrance on the left of the photograph), which is approached via Mill Hill, is well outside the village. One descends to it from a road bridge.

This imposing statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse, Copenhagen, has been situated on Round Hill since 1885, when it was brought from Hyde Park Corner in London where it had dwarfed the

The surrounding hills are high and the climate damp, but the land has good grazing and can even be prevailed upon to produce a good crop of hay – note the hayrick on the left.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Finchingfield combines a water supply (Finchingfield Brook) with a defensible site (Church Hill). What made sense to Saxon settlers has made it Essex`s most photographed village.

Pier Hill can be seen rising behind the foreshore buildings with the High Street stretching north from The Royal Hotel.

The lorry coming down the hill (left) is a sign of changing times; by the fifties most goods were being moved by road, and the ketches seen in photograph 63963 (p.73) were long gone.

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

The railings of Cane Hill Hospital are on the left.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

At the foot of St Dunstan's Hill, this mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed

This view of the Glen was taken from St Bride's Hill. It is possible to reach the Glen Beach from just below the row of houses.