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Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century.

It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and

The church on a hill commands the scene; it has a 14th-century tower and a slender spire, with a newer nave and chancel designed by the Victorian architect G F Bodley.

Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

This famous and picturesque town is situated on a hill above the River Blackwater.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

Overlooking the River Asker and Happy Island, north-westwards to Watton Hill (centre) as a Great Western Railway pannier tank engine (right) steams out of Bridport Station (far left) with a goods train

The A1004 swings right into Alderman's Hill past the railway station, and the outstanding building facing the camera is of 1904.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

Hill's, now G & M's restaurant, has since lost its semi-circular window and parapet for a gable.

Thus the name of the village may also derive from the words 'dun', meaning 'a hill', and 'dwr', 'water'.

The symmetry of the ploughman's furrows consign the hills of Bryn Arw and the Sugar Loaf to a background role.

Ashby Road becomes the High Street at the crossroads (centre); to the left is Packington Hill, and to the right Broadhill Road.

This view looks east from Bridge Street, past the Market House and along into Bell Hill.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

The distant sand hills and Sea View Walk are still there, and look exactly the same.

The statue seen here is of Sir Rowland Hill, creator of the penny post.

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

The windmill, which still stands on the summit of Bidston Hill, was built as a flour mill in 1800 and functioned as such until 1875.

In the shadow of Woodcock Hill with the River Darwen flowing beneath, the viaduct also spans the valley floor with its wealth of mature trees.

The building with the tall chimney stacks dates from the late 19th century; it was the Maternity Hospital and nursing home until the hospital moved to Burton Hill in 1925.

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.