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He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time. His office can be seen here, at the corner of Berry Lane.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

The typically Kentish peg-tiled roof, with its garnish of houseleek and lichen, would have been known to Charles Dickens, for whom a favourite walk was from his Gad's Hill home near Strood to Shorne

There are now traffic lights and a great deal more traffic where this policeman stands on point duty at the junction of High Street with Corporation Street (left) and Star Hill (right).

In the background at the top of the hill we can see the tower of the parish church of St Cuthbert, which replaced the original now ruinous church of St Mary on the famous Panorama Walk.

The buildings on the hill are the upper part of Brimscombe village, with Walls Quarry and Burleigh to the right.

Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area. It was rebuilt in the 15th century, then badly damaged during the Civil War, and rebuilt again.

Not only does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the

There are many memorials in the 400-year-old building to walkers and climbers who have met their deaths on England's highest hills.

William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

Also in the village, at the foot of a hill where the little River Wey rises, is the celebrated English's wishing well and tea gardens.

This comfortable pub, once an inn, lies under Hurstbourne Hill on what was the Andover turnpike to Newbury. It was near here that William Cobbett stayed with Joseph Blount at Rookery Farm.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high. The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

A mile north-west of here is the Dover's Hill viewpoint, where the famous Cotswold games were formerly held.

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

In the background we can see the funicular railway for those not wanting to make the 485-foot walk up Constitution Hill.

Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham's Cross.

interior is laid out in a series of tableaux depicting scenes from the lives of his characters, while in the garden is the Swiss chalet which the author had imported to the grounds of his home at Gads Hill

The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.