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This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

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.

This imposing statue of the Duke of Wellington seated on his horse, Copenhagen, has been situated on Round Hill since 1885, when it was brought from Hyde Park Corner in London where it had dwarfed the

The parish pump used to stand on the corner of Grove Hill, just in front of Stansted Park Stores (the polygonal building on the right).

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

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

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

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

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.The

The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.

The postman is perhaps finding the hill difficult, and so is pushing his bike up the hill. The temporary No Parking signs suggest that an event will be under way at any time.

These views (below and pages 40-41) up and down Church Street would have been familiar to Dylan Thomas, who lived near New Quay in 1944, and to many visitors, who have to park their cars at the top of

Known today for its caravan parks and the long sandy beach of Black Rock sands, Morfa Bychan, just west of Porthmadog, was long celebrated for the story of Dafydd Garreg-Wen, the blind harpist, known for

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

We can see Coronation Park in the foreground - the flowerbeds were later grassed over.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

The tram lift saves a long, tiring climb to the top of the hill.

Either way, it is nice to relax and have refreshments among the wooded hills, especially after driving there in convertibles such as those parked at the gateway.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

The main road to Bridport snakes up the hill above Park Farm and Clammers Field, towards Turnpike Cottage and Miles Cross (left).