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St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

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

The view from nearby Windmill Hill is spectacular.

Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill.

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.

With its cobbled main street, wide square and bustling market, Bedale sits astride a long, low hill on the edge of Wensleydale.

The Cotswolds reach their highest point at West Down, 1083 feet above sea level, above this parish of Cleeve Hill, east of Cheltenham.

Summer sunshine has brought out the flowery frocks, but the ladies will still not venture out without their hats.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

The village encompasses riverside and hillside, and has a main line railway station.The 15th-century church is on the hill- side.The photograph shows the view from the side of Stane Street, which

To the right we can see Kensington Church Street leading north to Notting Hill Gate.

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

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Ribble Valley archaeological finds are on display at Ribchester Museum, including the replica of a Romano-Celtic head and metal objects from the Iron Age hill fort at Portfield, Whalley.

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall.

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

The reason is the massive shopping centre at nearby Merry Hill, opened in the 1980s on the site of a former steelworks.

Originally a 13th-century farm, the building became a halt for packhorse trains carrying wool across the hills.