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Beyond Bosley Reservoir, the Cloud is the name given to the hill in the distance.

In the distance are the trees of Merks Hill - itself a known site of Roman habitation - and on our left is the ribbon development that had started creeping along this road in the 1920s.

There are many memorials in the 400-year-old building to walkers and climbers who have met their deaths on England's highest hills.

The zigzag paths on what was once known as Capstan Hill were cut in 1894.

In the mid 19th century the wealthy Rev John Lance built himself a large vicarage and replaced the small 15th-century church with one so large that it was nicknamed the 'Cathedral of the Blackdown Hills

Legend relates that the original site for the priory church was on the nearby St Catherine's Hill, a splendid view- point overlooking the town.

Crown Hill was the setting for an unusual wager in 1936: a Grays confectioner was bet that he could not cycle backwards up the 1-in-7 road.

Station Road is readily recognisable as it drops away from the underground station towards Hale Lane and Mill Hill.

In the background are the hills which lead up to Otley's most famous landmark, The Chevin.

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 the hill

In the distance is the tree-clad hill of Bramber Castle with the stone tooth of its keep.

In Roman times a fort stood on nearby Brough Hill, and a garrison was maintained here from about AD 80 to around the end of the 4th century.

The tower on Conygar Hill was built in 1775 and gives a grand view across the bay.

Lying near the coast below Bossington Hill, these cottages over- look a stream that once powered a corn mill. Close by is Lynch Chapel, a medieval chapel-of-ease to the church at Selworthy.

Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.

The signpost makes a central focal point on the flat-topped ridge looking towards the solid tower of Cane Hill Hospital on the skyline.

The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen. Upstairs were many chambers, all magnificently furnished.

Looking down from the White Horse can be seen the flat-topped Dragon's Hill where, legend has it, St George slew the Dragon; the white markings on the side are where the blood of the Dragon ran down in

Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone

A local guide points out the stalactite formation known as the Organ in Stump Cross Cavern, one of the Dales' popular show-caves, at Greenhow Hill on the Pateley Bridge to Grassington Road.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the cathedral, whose modest spire (added when the tower was rebuilt in 1904) rises behind

The road on the top of the hill - indicated by the houses - leads to the delightfully names Conksbury Bridge in gorgeous Lathkill Dale.

This view from the roundabout looks north along Turner's Hill, where the contrast between the modern shopping parade and the smaller old shops can be appreciated.

After the horses had been changed at Kingsfold, the stagecoaches ran through Warnham down Little London Hill, past Warnham Corner at the junction of Station Road.