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Below Church Hill and the main street, Victoria Road provides us with our first glimpse of the sea and of the Moot Hall.

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.

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.

On the other hand, the earliest that Brierley Hill is known to have been inhabited is 1619, though by the mid 18th century it too was noted for its coal pits, nail-making, brickworks, forges and glass

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

Now on the A25, this village lies between the north downs and the Leith Hill sandstone range.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The road behind the cart leads to Wherwell, and the horse is looking up the track to Bere Hill Farm.

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.

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

The site on a hill makes the church visible from many miles away.

The Spain may have been named after Spanish wool merchants who gathered here to trade for wool and cloth, and Music Hill is where 18th-centu- ry military bands played.

Horner Water winds through a steep, densely- wooded vale, which lies below the abrupt northern slopes of Dunkery Hill, Somerset's highest point.

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

A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Offwell hides in the hills to the south-west of Honiton, half-forgotten by time and well off the tourist trail.

The road on the right leads to the famous Gog Magog Hills.

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.