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Contributing to this popularity was the electric tram service that ran to the top of the hill from Cheltenham and opened in 1901.

The bank was built in 1894 as the Wilts & Dorset Bank on the main road to Bournemouth at the Church Road cross- roads at the bottom of Castle Hill. Today it is Lloyds TSB.

It crowns the hill, and has many monuments to the Culpeper family.

The modest hotel stands on North Quay Hill with a view over the harbour and bay. An almost colonial-style veranda with fancy railings is supported on cast-iron pillars with a twisted decoration.

Situated on a steep hill on a road that comes from Sandsend, the village has a Saxon church; here are buried the bodies of seven unidentified sailors that were washed up on the tides.

In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.

In the background on Calton Hill stands the unfinished monument to the Scottish dead of the Napoleonic Wars. The monument was started in 1822, but the money ran out and it was never completed.

On the right is The Angler's Rest and behind it Prestonbury Hill, on top of which is the prehistoric Prestonbury Fort.

The village lies under the shadow of Hordown Hill, a prominent local viewpoint.

In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

St Giles Hill is the high ground to the east of the old city walls. A fine view over the city can be had by crossing the River Itchen and ascending to its summit.

Colneford House stands on Colneford Hill and overlooks the green we see in W194011. The walls of this fine old house are covered in superb pargeting. Over the central porch is the date 1685.

Notice the army barracks on the hill beyond.

The twin villages of Cawsand and Kingsand nestle into the hills on the west of Cawsand Bay; they were once, like so many Cornish villages, a centre for smugglers.

Hollins Hill was built in 1909 by William Haworth, as a home for himself and his sister Anne.

These ladies are strolling on one of the highest hills in North Norfolk. Pretty Corner is aptly named, and the title applies to them as well as to the wonderful scenery visible from this point.

This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps.

Strawberry Hill, above the village, was the site of an Iron Age fort. A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and other boats in the centre.

Oolitic limestone has been quarried at Cleeve Hill for centuries. In days gone by it was called 'freestone' because it was relatively easy to obtain and work.

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

This scene, looking up Denton Hill towards Cuddesdon, has not changed much to this day. A more modern thatched house has replaced the one we see on the left, and the wooden shed has also gone.

To the right behind the houses is Tower Hill, the site of Gourock Castle. Built in 1747 the castle was demolished before the Great War.

Wyatt clad the brick house in the local hard granite- like Denner Hill Stone and gothicised the house with turrets and battlements.

Christ Church was built in 1830-31, high above the town on Sambourne Hill.