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A temporary bridge was erected from a ledge below the Store or Detachment Shelter on the left to Castle Hill, which allowed the passage of building materials and labourers from mainland to

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

In a document dated 1295 this area was referred to as 'Runcoure Superior' - this had nothing to do with the class of people who lived here but referred to the fact that it was on the hill

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre).

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Ten years later, the designer Laura Ashley opened a mill in the village to mark the start of what has become a fashion empire still in business throughout Britain today.

At the very top of the street is the Lion, where George Hill was also a baker and confectioner.

By the end of the 19th century, Church Road was Burgess Hill's main shopping centre.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby.

To the right of the picture are the Hall, now the Crown Inn, and the church.

The backdrop to this scene is Coopers Hill, where each Whit Monday the famous cheese-rolling event takes place.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance.

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century.

It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and

The church on a hill commands the scene; it has a 14th-century tower and a slender spire, with a newer nave and chancel designed by the Victorian architect G F Bodley.

Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

This famous and picturesque town is situated on a hill above the River Blackwater.

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.

Overlooking the River Asker and Happy Island, north-westwards to Watton Hill (centre) as a Great Western Railway pannier tank engine (right) steams out of Bridport Station (far left) with a goods train

The A1004 swings right into Alderman's Hill past the railway station, and the outstanding building facing the camera is of 1904.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

Hill's, now G & M's restaurant, has since lost its semi-circular window and parapet for a gable.

Thus the name of the village may also derive from the words 'dun', meaning 'a hill', and 'dwr', 'water'.