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Marske is an attractive and unusual Swaledale village, neither nuclear nor linear, nestling in a fold of hills just above the River Swale.

On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Buttermere and Crummock Water were once one large lake, until alluvium from Sail Beck gradually cut it in two.

The beck runs through the village green and then under this bridge beside the farmhouse and the parish church.

Gone too is Measand Beck Hall which was close by. Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.

Beyond the bridge is Back Hill Steps. Behind the cottages near the steps is a large three-storey house with gables.

Some distance away from the village is charming Beck Hole, today a magnet for tourists in search of locations from the TV series Heartbeat.

Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top.

Cliffe Hill Street 1894 Cliffe, across the River Ouse, still has a very separate feel to Lewes up the hill.

The point from which this photograph was taken, Seed Hill, was at that time in Yorkshire, but looks over the border, defined here by the Hodder, across a corner of Lancashire.

A local legend says that the people planned to build it on lower land, but each night, after work, a pig came along and moved all the stones back up to the top of the hill.

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square. The ornamental railings on the right are those of Botley Mill.

In the distance is Kilcreggan on the Rosneath Peninsula, and the entrance to Loch Long which is backed by the Cowal hills.

Dating back to Roman times, this is the only natural harbour between the Humber and the Tees, and is an important shipping haven.

This view looks north-eastwards to St Martin's Parish Church (right), and the distinctive 599-feet profile of Shipton Hill (centre). There are several privies half-way up the back gardens (left).

Finely situated on the brow of a hill to the north-east of the village, the hydro offered guests the usual water treatments and dietary regimes.

We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.

We are looking back in the opposite direction to 65467 through the archway towards the narrow wynd called The Bar.

At its back it is fringed by hills. In common with Penzance and Newlyn, Mousehole narrowly escaped sacking by the Spaniards in the 1500s.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises 800 feet at the back of the town.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Standing high on a hill with fine Sussex views, West Hoathly is probably best known for its historic church of St Margaret of Antioch.