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The station entrance sign can be glimpsed behind Hill's footwear store (centre).

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

Bilsdale Hall is hidden behind the trees (centre). Chisel Hill Mill (left) reminds us of local industry powered by the River Eller. Out of shot, top left, is the beguiling little church of St Hilda.

High up on the hills, this was lead mining country. Now tourists come to see the four-mile-long array of caves discovered by miners in 1858.

In the far distance, across the Severn, is May Hill, with its distinctive pine copse. Today, the M5 bisects the agricultural land in the middle distance.

His brand new Volvo once rolled, driverless, across Blandford Road and into Pardy's Hill, coming to rest harmlessly against the tree (centre).

Standing at the bottom of the notoriously steep climb of Porlock Hill, the Ship Inn appears little changed today, despite the removal of its attractive rustic wooden porches.

It is still fed by hot mineral waters from a continuous spring; it is hard to imagine that the water seen today fell as rain on the Mendip Hills 10,000 years ago.

A previ- ous owner, the Blaenavon industrialist James Hill, had spent a lot of money on the house. Today it is part of the modern Nevill Hall Hospital, which was built in the 1960s.

On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.

Coopers Hill looms in the distance, the site of the annual cheese-rolling races.

A previous owner, the Blaenavon industrialist James Hill, had spent a lot of money on the house. Today it is part of the modern Nevill Hall Hospital, which was built in the 1960s.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

It may have been created in 1740, when two overhanging stones fell down the hill, making the houses in the Hough shake, and, according to legend, squashing an old woman and her cow.

The slightly raised location affords fine views of the Lake District hills to the west and south. The view is of the east end of the village, looking towards Saddleback.

It matched similar gateways at his home, Burley-on-the-Hill. The wrought iron gates were added in 1872, replacing wooden doors.

The villages in this area are situated on the Magnesian limestone hills, which are typical of the east Durham countryside between Hartlepool and South Shields.

The hill in the background with a hedge on its crest remains an attractive focal point from this 1930s development.

There is still plenty of stone, although not the wonderful golden oolitic limestones from Ham Hill and the far south of the county; here we have the Blue Lias, a thin limestone which can only

The Town Hall, also built as a corn market, was opened by the Duke of Wellington in 1833; a 173 feet obelisk monument to the Duke is on Wellington Hill to the south of the town.

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

Additional defences comprised fixed gun positions at Cloch Point, Toward Point and on Castle Hill, Dunoon.

This set of 16 locks is part of the famous flight of 29 at Caen Hill.

Fore Hill is an attractive street which continues on from the High Street, descending to the River Ouse.