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The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

Designed by Edgar Wood, the inn opened on 18 February 1897; the licence had been transferred from the previous inn at Trub Farmhouse. The mock- Tudor front was added later.

the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet moat 30ft wide.The original castle was built of wood

Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road

Baron Rothschild transformed a bare hilltop near Aylesbury into a wooded park, crowned with a spectacular French-style chateau. In the valley he built Waddesdon, an estate village.

Clumber Park, like Rufford, is heavily wooded; it was enclosed out of Sherwood Forest, that great forest that extends from Worksop southwards almost to Nottingham.

The miniature railway at Cofton Wood was nearly as popular as the tea room, though one cannot help wondering if the adults in this picture are not just the teeniest bit embarrassed.

Much of the woodwork came from old ships' timbers - this was at a time when newer wood was taken for the building of warships.

It was a delightful journey for passengers, the train chugging along the banks of the River Leven, and through rock cuttings and narrow wooded ravines.

At Kinver, a lofty wooded red sandstone ridge offers delightful views over the Staffordshire countryside.

Prickend marks the end of one expanse of land that stretches from Petts Wood in the south and to Summer Hill in the west.

After being given to the town in 1913 by James Moly (and named for his home, Langmoor Manor, in the woods above Charmouth), Langmoor Gardens had a chequered career.

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century. This street is so free from traffic that a dog can sun himself in the roadway.

It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.The village has many historic houses.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

The village of Palnackie is set in a region of wooded hills and streams.

Sunnyhurst Wood is a Nature Reserve; Sunnyhurst Brook runs through it to join the River Darwen that gave the town its name.

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

The gravestone in the foreground to the right marks poor Mary Ann Wood, who died on 18 June 1797, aged 14 months.

Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel

We are looking south from Lower Gatesgarth.The pines of Crag Wood are prominent in the centre of the photograph, while the slopes of Dodd sweep up the lake shore beyond.

The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.

A scattering of mansions, cottages, and odds and ends of streets nestling beneath a limestone cliff or half hidden away among wooded slopes, this tiny Torquay of Lancashire has, as yet, escaped the notice