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It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

It may have been created in 1740, when two overhanging stones fell down the hill, making the houses in the Hough shake, and, according to legend, squashing an old woman and her cow.

The slightly raised location affords fine views of the Lake District hills to the west and south.

It matched similar gateways at his home, Burley-on-the-Hill.

The villages in this area are situated on the Magnesian limestone hills, which are typical of the east Durham countryside between Hartlepool and South Shields.

The hill in the background with a hedge on its crest remains an attractive focal point from this 1930s development.

There is still plenty of stone, although not the wonderful golden oolitic limestones from Ham Hill and the far south of the county; here we have the Blue Lias, a thin limestone which can only

The Town Hall, also built as a corn market, was opened by the Duke of Wellington in 1833; a 173 feet obelisk monument to the Duke is on Wellington Hill to the south of the town.

He was also a land-agent, who sold plots at Laindon and Langdon Hills for £5 a time.

A steep hill leads away from the estuary to the top of Kingsbridge town.

The tram lift saves a long, tiring climb to the top of the hill.

This unusual view shows the Mount's estate houses and a harbour wall, with Marazion stretched out along the coast and Trencrom Hill rising behind on the extreme left.

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

This was the ford by Lud's burial mound (or 'low') which sat on the top of the hill under the present church.

cross, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was removed in the early years of the 20th century, possibly because it was considered to be too 'high church'; it is now in the parish church of Dunham-on-the-Hill

This is a beautiful example of the mixing of stone and timberwork that is typical of many houses that snuggle amongst the hills of southern Shropshire.

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

The Bere Stream, seen looking eastwards from Southbrook Bridge, towards Bedford and Jesty's watercress beds with a glimpse of Woodbury Hill (top left).

The furthest hill - Baggy Point - was notorious for shipwrecks in an earlier age.

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

There are now traffic lights and a great deal more traffic where this policeman stands on point duty at the junction of High Street with Corporation Street (left) and Star Hill (right).

Either way, it is nice to relax and have refreshments among the wooded hills, especially after driving there in convertibles such as those parked at the gateway.

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

The delightful mid Victorian house on the right is built in Strawberry Hill Gothic style.