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The church of St Lawrence is superbly positioned on the brow of a narrow spur offering splendid views to the north of the Greensand Hills.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

The view from nearby Windmill Hill is spectacular.

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.

A 19th-century tramway was unofficially used by the public to reach the top of the hill, where some foolhardy visitors climbed this pinnacle, as we can see from these pictures.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

The view upstream beyond the bridge is to Pendle Hill, whose summit is 1,745 feet above sea level.

Beyond the scattered farms and cottages, the limestone hills sweep up towards the large exposed cutting, just visible above the trees to the right, which has been made for the imminent coming of the Midland

Spanning the narrow street of this hill-top village, which rests high on the chalk uplands overlooking the River Nar, is this monumental arch, ancient gateway to the castle, which lies ruinous close

The Red Lion can be traced back to 1680 and stood alone until the arrival of the railways and Cane Hill Hospital.

Beyond the bus stop the cluster of petrol pumps has been replaced by a BP garage slightly lower down the hill, and the garage on the right has been re-built as GVC (Vans Direct).

The stream ran down from Pen Hill through this pond to provide motive power for the corn mill over the road and below the Heifer Inn.

Elmley Castle is one of those delightful villages lying around the foot of Bredon Hill. Little now remains of the castle itself, once the stronghold of the Beauchamp family.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

This shows the northern slope of Capstone Hill and its junction with Ropery Meadow (centre, in front of the chapel) as it was before any development took place.

Here at the top of Nanny Hill on the way to the cemetery stands the Clock Tower, built between 1920 and 1923 as a war

The church of Our Lady and St Patrick was built higher up the hill on the site of Eastcliff House sta- bles in 1880.

We are looking north-westwards up Spring Head Road from its junction with Mill Lane (foreground, right) and the bridge over the River Lim.

This road comes from Cold Overton, a fine Leicestershire village, on the hill just 2 miles away. As the sign shows, in 100 yards the road joins the busy A606 Melton-Oakham Road.

This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.

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.

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.