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From Lansdown Road turn left into Camden Crescent, an ambitious project begun in 1788 on the slopes of Beacon Hill, which gave splendid views eastwards.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Prestbury lies under the great bluff of Cleeve Hill, the destination of the tram, not the only mode of Edwardian travel in this photograph!

Photographed from the Yorkshire bank of the Ribble, the view looks across Sawley to Noddle Hill.

At the top of Pier Hill is Royal Terrace, so named because it was here that the Princesses Caroline and Charlotte stayed when visiting the town early in the 19th century.

The bridge over the stream in the foreground is an ancient stone slab or 'clapper' bridge; there are many of these in Exmoor, including the famous Tarr Steps across the River Barle, five miles

Noak Hill was popular with ramblers and cyclists between the World Wars and the Pentowen Cafe beyond the chapel was a favourite place to meet.

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 North Wall (right centre) has since been joined to the mainland (in 1979) by a random wall of rough boulders.

We are looking west as the A387 drops down into the hamlet to the bridge over the River Seaton at the bottom of the hill, before the road climbs up the other side on its way to Looe.

Old-style forage harvesting is going on in a pastoral view of Chideock and its valley.

Occupying a hill-top, Preesall grew as a small market around a corn mill and two pubs, both of which are shown here, the Black Bull and the Saracen's Head.

Skegness sprung up into considerable note since the extension of the railway in 1873.

On the northern slopes of Cothelstone Hill, Parkend Lodge overlooks an entrance to the estate, which takes its name from the Norman de Coveston family who first held the manor.

The pleasant market town of Abergele lies just inland from the chalets and caravans of the north coast between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

This wind-eroded sandstone outcrop, about 30 feet high, is situated on the eastern edge of Stapleford Hill, just off the A6002 Coventry Lane.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

Beyond the promenade, the bay sweeps around past Dunster to Minehead, which lies below the high promontory of North Hill.

A little higher up on a hill, peeping over the top of the Royal Marine Restaurant (far right) is the Trinity Theatre, which today houses the Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society.

Firstly, the black car near the café is a 1950s or 1960s model, and the petrol pumps on the right are of that era.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

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