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This photograph shows the skyline from the profile of Bell Stone (left, top) along to the ramparts of the Iron Age hill-fort on Eggardon Hill (right, top).

The main street of Alllington village (bottom left) leads into this panorama of Bridport town, looking south-east from Allington Hill, with the outer parish's St Swithun's Church being the prominent building

Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.

Now firmly back in the ironstone hills, we reach Newnham, two miles south of Daventry. The village is set on the hilly north side of the young River Nene. Little has changed.

Belfast is pleasantly situated at the end of the lough that bears its name. This view looks westwards across the lough to Cave Hill, just to the north of the city.

This classical referral to Greek heroics is in fact a pedestrian underpass connecting the legs of a hairpin bend in the Upton by-pass.

But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

Dominating the countryside around, and particularly impressive from the Bathampton side of the valley, Brown's Folly was built on the summit ridge of Bathford Hill in 1840.

Here we see the best way to park on a steep hill - sideways! We are looking down this attractive street to the St Thomas and Newport part of Launceston, where the old church tower is just visible.

This is a view of the same street looking down the hill. Notice how in this and the other pictures of Whitchurch, the street lights are suspended above the centre of the street.

Abberley Hill and Woodbury Hill rise to about a thousand feet. This 161 feet high clock tower caps the latter, and is known locally as Jones's Folly.

Lines of local authority housing climb the hill at Stanmore on the south-west outskirts of Winchester, which has evolved and expanded over the years.

The Shepherd & Dog (right) is a 300-year-old pub at the top of the hill. The petrol station still exists in an expanded form.

It could almost be said that there are two Frodshams, one settlement that nestles just under Overton Hill and a second that developed along Main and High Streets.

Cottages sit beside Skilling Hill Road in a panorama eastwards across the double vales of the River Simene and the River Brit.

The pier is at the bottom of Evening Hill. The hut has today been superseded by a larger building for the East Dorset Sailing Club. Both houses in this photograph survive.

This shows the area from Convalescent Hill to Cobbold's Point, which is named after the Ipswich family who built a house there in 1829.

Gardeners tend the remarkable holly hedge of Penny Hill Park, which grows in places up to 40 feet high. Penny Hill Park was built in 1873, and is now an hotel. It has a beautifully landscaped garden.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

Boyce Hill took its name from a medieval land-owning family: their farm stood where the clubhouse now is. Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

This is something of a misnomer, as in reality there is no such village. The fact is that there are two villages, Hutton and Cranswick, which are less than a mile apart.

There are many hill forts that punctuate the western escarpment; the majority of them belong to the Iron Age, and date from about 600 BC.

A rustic corner, with mossy thatch and a corrugated-iron porch lid, lies beside Loves Lane on the western slope of Hardown Hill.

The Park Hill estate towers above Sheffield Midland station.