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Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

The pretty little village of Barbon, near Kirkby Lonsdale, lies in the hills above the Lune Valley beneath Thorn Moor, on the minor road through Barbondale to Dent.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

High on the hill above the village from which it takes its name lies the Triscombe Stone.

Henry Hill Hickman was born here and is buried in the church. By the age of 21 he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Dugberry Hill is on the skyline (right of church tower).

A number of carriages are seen going up Castle Hill towards the Castle. The livery of the coachmen indicate that the occupants were high-ranking, possibly even Royalty.

The motor car is a fitting reminder that in 1902 Bexhill held the first motor racing trials in England, on a course leading from Galley Hill to the De La Warr Parade.

In the distance, a 100ft tower, a replica of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse, surmounts Hoad Hill.

Now known as the Bear of Rodborough, this has been a stopping place for centuries, and played an important part as a collecting point for carrier services in this area of steep hills.

Looking south down Scale Hill, once known as Church Lane. The first building on the right is the tramps boarding house, on the site of the Chequers Inn.

Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.

Surrounded by rolling hills, this has to be one of the most beautiful villages in Oxfordshire.

The hilliness of these parishes was often cited as the cause of the 'Pure Air and Good Health' lauded in the property advertisements.

Spring Hill Corner is an ancient junction where Springhill Lane branches off the Wolverhampton road towards Lower Penn. It runs along the top of a ridge and is prehistoric in origin.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

Thankfully, this view is not greatly changed today, though Great Malvern has crept further across the hills and the suburbs in the middle distance have expanded.

The village of Braunston lies on a hill overlooking a picturesque stretch of the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain's most famous inland waterways.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

Botley Station (entrance on the left of the photograph), which is approached via Mill Hill, is well outside the village. One descends to it from a road bridge.

This imposing statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse, Copenhagen, has been situated on Round Hill since 1885, when it was brought from Hyde Park Corner in London where it had dwarfed the