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The 85-ft ornamental chimney stack for Kit Hill United Mine was built in 1858 as a summit landmark to be seen from many miles.

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

The hill, or motte, beneath was of Norman origin, and Henry III used the castle as a garrison. Its underground tunnel network played an essential part in the Second World War.

When this picture was taken, the motor car was a relatively new method of travelling up the hill to the village grocery store, A E Hammond (right).

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

It was on the escarpment of Edge Hill (in the background of this photograph) that Charles I unfurled his standard in 1642 before the first major battle of the Civil War.

The original village, however, was at the bottom of the hill, centred on the church of St Peter, with the estuary of the Dee beyond.

Capstone Parade was designed to be `suitable for bath chairs`, as can be seen by its level passage around Capstone Hill.

The Chalford Valley, with former woollen cloth mills every few hundred yards along its length, extends through Brimscombe into the distance.

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

Again there are houses on the sand hills. The breakwater timbers have a worn look about them, but they still served their purpose, and formed little pools for baby crabs to hide in.

Midhurst is a town of contrasts, with an early medieval core around the church, west of the Norman castle earthworks on St Anne's Hill, and the wide North Street, a later medieval planned market place.

The lane behind Frith's photographer becomes the track up to Leith Hill.

There are three churches visible which are St Aidan`s, in the distance, the original Coulsdon Baptist Church (an iron hall built in 1936) and the former Elim Pentecostal Church with its Italian marble

The Zennor Quoit is a chambered tomb on a wind-blown hill. Seven stout boulders once supported a colossal slab roof, eighteen feet across. Sadly, it was desecrated by farmers.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west. In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

A nursemaid sits with her two charges enjoying the sun on Castle Hill. Behind, a seating area nestles in the remnants of some ancient building whose purpose is now unclear.

The inn's name moved here from Hill Street in the 1840s.

Rowe's Garage at the top of the hill no longer serves Regent petrol, but the single-storey Institute next to it is still there.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

A picnic party in a meadow in the hamlet of Loweswater are enjoying the splendid view north up Crummock Water.The lower slopes of Grasmoor are prominent on the left, and the skyline is filled by