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Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

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.

Today the hill is covered by a flourishing forest.

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Perched on a windy hill a mile or two north of Portscatho, Gerrans has been called a 'plain-looking village'.

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.

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

Just up the hill is the Dartmoor Inn, and on the skyline is the rocky mass of Great Staple Tor, one of the southernmost outliers of the plateau of the north moor.

Where the bus mean- ders westward, the dual carriageway of Balkerne Hill removed a number of buildings on each side of the road on its noisy way to the Southway roundabout, cutting Crouch

Leckhampton Hill, and the surrounding four hundred acres of grassland, were purchased by Cheltenham Town Council in 1929, and the area is now designated as a Site of Special Scientific

Until mid-Victorian times, this part of the road, known now as Greenhill, had been called New Well Hill. Here, we are looking towards the Green at the turn of the century.

Erroneously known at the time when this photograph was taken as the Druids' Circle, the Castlerigg Stone Circle just outside Keswick is dramatically set in an amphitheatre of hills, including Skiddaw,

This tall limestone pillar stands above the quarries on Leckhampton Hill, not far from Cheltenham.

Taken from Overton Hill, this view shows the town with the Mersey estuary in the distance beyond the sand dunes. It is from here that the Sandstone Trail now begins.

This interesting picture shows the bridge over the Rother at the bottom of Adhurst Hill. The post office on the right superseded the toll house on the turnpike (1711).

The post office and general stores are still at the same site today at the summit of the hill and near the crossroads (though the proprietors have changed).

Beyond the cows, the hill is the site of the original castle motte. Beyond that are the houses along Burley Road.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

In the 19th century, a railway brought Brendon Hills iron ore here for shipment to Wales. In the 20th century, ships brought in esparto grass for the town's paper mills.

The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.

Close to the junction of Nine Mile Ride, New Wokingham Road and Honey Hill, we can see Chappell's Store, clearly the local retailer for Salmon's Teas but also providing the facility of

This scene was snapped from the church and faces down the hill. On the right is the Goudhurst Coffee House, and it looks as if a shop is next door. Eedes the chemist sits behind the trees (centre).

Until the 1930s, trams ran along Prestbury High Street en route to the top of Cleeve Hill. A workman was employed to grease the rails at the sharp bend just out of sight in the distance.