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The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.

The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.

A lone horse and cart trundles up the hill, and children are enjoying playing in the dust of the unsurfaced road.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting.There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.The Norman church of St Mary

The bridge in our photograph is the Greyhound Road Bridge; it replaced the very first bridge, the medieval Old Bridge, which led directly to Bridge Hill and China Lane, which was only 8ft wide.

Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

At St Mary's Church, on the hill, there is a cross commemorating 43 hop pickers who died of cholera in 1849.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

The white statue atop the ridge is of Britannia; tradition says that when she hears St Mary's clock strike thirteen, she will come down from the roof and walk up the hill to church.

Here we see Victoria Buildings on the corner of the road to the sand dunes, known as Formby Hills, and to Mad Wharf beyond them.

The houses in this view are for the most part late Victorian, apart from the one on the right; the prettiest part of the village is nearer the church and the Crown pub at the bottom of the hill

Near the entrance to Worksop College, on Sparrow Hill (the old road into Worksop), are the lion gates and one of the many lodges and gateways into the vast 3,000 acre grounds of Welbeck Abbey, built

This peaceful village lies below the slopes of the Greensand Hills.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Beyond is part of Lord Burghley's Hospital, then the river, and up the hill in Stamford proper the elegant 160 foot tower and spire of St Mary's Church, a superb 13th-century Early English Gothic structure

The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.

Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.

Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.

In the middle ground, in front of the church nestling below the humped hills, carriages in the siding await an engine.

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

Landlords here included Henry Hills, Mrs Emily Jane Parsons, and Miss L Parsons. To the right is Duffy, the butcher's.

Washington is on the main London to Worthing Road at the foot of the Downs.There are fine views of Chanctonbury Ring, a ring of beech trees planted on the site of an Iron Age hill fort 800 feet up

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.