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This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The view from nearby Windmill Hill is spectacular.

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

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

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Beyond the bus stop the cluster of petrol pumps has been replaced by a BP garage slightly lower down the hill, and the garage on the right has been re-built as GVC (Vans Direct).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

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

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 low tide has left a good deal of Tate Hill sands uncovered.

A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high. The village church of St Mary's is an Early English building with an ancient chest and coffin.

There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby. A local mansion, Watergate House, is now demolished.

We are looking across the Headlands estate towards Borough Hill and the BBC masts. To the right the spire of Holy Church stands out above the centre of Daventry.

All is quiet in this scene, but increasing traffic congestion, both local and tourist, finally led to the narrow hill becoming a one-way street.

Brewhouse Hill leads from Wheathampstead to the hamlet of Amwell (not to be confused with the village, south of Ware, of the same name.)

This Norman church atop Crayford Hill is probably the oldest in the borough of Bexley.

The remainder of the buildings have changed little, including an excellent early 18th-century brick-fronted house halfway up the hill.