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It was for the building of the Promenade and the surrounding crescents and terraces that many of the quarries were opened in the neighbouring hills.

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

Japanese plants and shrubs were planted, and at the time it was said that Oak Hill Park had one of the finest rock gardens anywhere in the country.

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.

Ladies' Walk ends a little more than a kilometre south-west of the bridge where the workman sits on Ladies' Walk.

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.

The church is Georgian, and is built of faced ashlar in a plain but impressive style with Venetian-style windows and a small tower with an octagon top.

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

This small inn stands at the edge of the village on the main London route into Cambridge where it crosses the River Granta. The road on the right leads to the famous Gog Magog Hills.

Chideock, always pronounced without the 'e', is set in a landscape of ancient ridgeways and rolling hills.

In summer months there is an atmosphere of palpable excitement here, as an endless stream of people winds its way down the hill into the heart of the town, turning at the old granite church of St Ia into

Seven miles south west of Saltburn is Roseberry Topping, which rises to 1,057ft above sea level.

Archetypal 1930s development swishes around the foot of Harrow on the Hill, with its gasworks tower always visible from the village and on the approach to Northolt Aerodrome.

This was the main road into St Austell from Truro and the west before the building of the ring road.

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley. From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down 29 locks to the valley below.

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.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

A pair of ramblers (right) heading for the hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.The lack of traffic in the main street is in sharp contrast

The village of Upper Beeding nestles against the hills. Confusingly, Upper Beeding is lower than its namesake Lower Beeding, which lies about 15 miles away near Horsham.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine—or monkey-puzzle tree—grows in a garden further down the hill

A guide points out the white stalagmite known as the Cathedral on a tour of Stump Cross Caverns.

Perched on a steep hill, the photographer has done justice to this picturesque view just off the Heads of the Valleys Road.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.