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The surrounding hills are high and the climate damp, but the land has good grazing and can even be prevailed upon to produce a good crop of hay – note the hayrick on the left.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Finchingfield combines a water supply (Finchingfield Brook) with a defensible site (Church Hill). What made sense to Saxon settlers has made it Essex`s most photographed village.

Pier Hill can be seen rising behind the foreshore buildings with the High Street stretching north from The Royal Hotel.

The lorry coming down the hill (left) is a sign of changing times; by the fifties most goods were being moved by road, and the ketches seen in photograph 63963 (p.73) were long gone.

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

The railings of Cane Hill Hospital are on the left.

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

At the foot of St Dunstan's Hill, this mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed

This view of the Glen was taken from St Bride's Hill. It is possible to reach the Glen Beach from just below the row of houses.

This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

This view of a virtually deserted Emgate shows a street of sturdy 18th- and 19th-century houses leading up to the Royal Hotel at the top of the hill. A

Ribblesdale village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is dominated by the stepped profile of Pen-y-Ghent, 2,277 feet high and one of Yorkshire's famous Three Peaks, seen here in the background of this view from Station Hill

At the top of the hill is one of the best-known views in Suffolk. On the left, Bridge House has a shop window from a former sweet shop. Across the bridge, Ye Olde River House is dated 1490.

Most visitors come to take in the little glen and wishing well, though the hills around offer extensive views over Dorchester and Chesil Beach.

We are looking inland from near Pentewan, with the St Austell hills in the far distance.

At this time the Crown and Anchor Inn, the large building at the foot of the hill, was still open and a focus for community life in Lyme Regis.With its congested, narrow streets, this is by far

Lantern Hill and the Chapel of St Nicholas are not just a focal point for visitors; for centuries the light on the chapel was a vital navigational aid for mariners.

From the north-west corner of Market Place, Town Street descends the hill past a drapers, a dairy utensil manufacturer and a shoe shop, all three displaying their wares.

The beautiful mature trees make an attractive setting in high summer along High Road at its junction with White Hill, extreme left, and Hogscross Lane.

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area.

This old market town, famed for its manufacture of nails, is situated on the slopes of the Lickey Hills.

The park had focussed around Prospect Hill House, now known as The Mansion House, which after being a problem building for years is now a pub/restaurant with marvellous views south from its hilltop