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Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

Cosily tucked away in a fold of the sandstone hills south-east of Godalming, Mare Lane leads to the highest point of the Down at Hydons Ball, where it reaches 593 feet.

The Swan Inn, with its tall chimney and man working on a ladder, is near the bottom of the hill.

The typically Kentish peg-tiled roof, with its garnish of houseleek and lichen, would have been known to Charles Dickens, for whom a favourite walk was from his Gad's Hill home near Strood to Shorne

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

Burgess Hill is one of the mid 19th-century settlements created on enclosed Wealden commons.

It was taken literally weeks before the start of the building of a series of individual, sometimes rather grand villas, which were to extend from the heights of Highgate Hill to Crouch End.

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 Lion Enclosure was one of those specifically accommodated into a natural feature of Castle Hill.

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.

This view shows Penwortham Hill and the climb out of Preston on the Liverpool/Southport road.

Also in the village, at the foot of a hill where the little River Wey rises, is the celebrated English's wishing well and tea gardens.

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

William Wordsworth's 'snow white church upon her hill' lost its white rendering in 1876.

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.

Moving north-east of Waddesdon, the last two villages on this tour, Oving and Whitchurch, are on the Quainton- Whitchurch Hills, a ridge of Portland limestone that gives fine views over the Vale of Aylesbury

This comfortable pub, once an inn, lies under Hurstbourne Hill on what was the Andover turnpike to Newbury.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

This picture gives a fine view up Surgery Hill and across the middle of Rhymney.

Peel Fold, situated on the slope of a hill a short distance away from the main road, was originally known as Oldham's Cross.

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

This smithy in this Wealden hamlet snuggled beneath the woods below Leith Hill was still busily occupied in the repair of farm machinery and the shoeing of horses.

In the background we can see the funicular railway for those not wanting to make the 485-foot walk up Constitution Hill.