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It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, standing at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

Quorn ('Querendon' in 1209) means 'the hill from where millstones were obtained'.

walks which serve at once as pier and promenade, and from which are commanded fine views of the bays on either hand … Both on the north and south sands, which are separated from each other by the Castle Hill

walks which serve at once as pier and promenade, and from which are commanded fine views of the bays on either hand … Both on the north and south sands, which are separated from each other by the Castle Hill

It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, which stands at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.

A little north of Horam, on the Heathfield road and up Steelyards Hill, stands Stillyans, an oasthouse converted into a house.

Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs. Much in the middle distance has been rebuilt, but most of the nearer buildings survive.

The single-storey building we can glimpse through the trees is the fire station, which moved in 1970 to Butts Hill.

Behind is half-timbered Leacroft on Tapper's Hill (centre left). The arched windows on Tollgate Cottage (centre right) look out on what was a turnpike toll road.

Note that no distances are indicated to either Dane Hill or Horsted Keynes - perhaps it was felt that it was not that important!

This is also known as Comberton Hill. The station approach is off to the left in front of the 'Catering' sign.

Nestling in a combe between two rocky hills, the tower of the parish church of St Michael is clearly visible in this view of the town, taken from the Cobb, on which the Duke of Monmouth landed on 11

Seen here from beyond the River Parrett, it once had a castle; now it is crowned by the altered medieval tower of St Michael's church, another example of this dedication on a hill site.

The monument on the hill was erected by the local people in 1836 in memory of their landlord, George Granville Leveson- Gower, Duke of Sutherland.

Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork.

Like Eastbourne, there was an old town up the hill, and like Eastbourne, Bexhill as a seaside resort is Victorian, but even later in starting.

At the top of Angel Hill is the Angel Inn, an early 19th- century building. It was once a stop where coaches and travellers changed horses before the descent into Sutton.

Here Frith's photographer looks up Pauls Hill towards the Church Road junction with Holy Trinity's churchyard behind the trees on the left.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century. It has always been an extremely important church as a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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.

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.

Horstead's old mill would have seen many wherries drawn up at its wharf. Coltishall is the gateway to the Broads, set on a low hill above the winding Bure.

Climbing out of the Vale of Aylesbury northwards onto the Brill-Winchendon Hills, we reach Upper Winchendon, where the Marquess of Wharton built a vast country house around 1700.