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Here we see a quiet corner of the Ribblesdale village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

The Ribblesdale village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is dominated by the stepped profile of Pen-y-Ghent, 2,277 feet high and one of Yorkshire's famous Three Peaks, seen here in the background of this view

The eastern chapel was the Horton family's worshipping place. The stained glass in the south window has several Netherlands roundels of the 16th century and later.

The third of the grand houses, Horton Place, was still a Tudor mansion although the owner, John Trotter, would have it rebuilt within a few years.

On the way from Clapham to Horton-in-Ribblesdale we pass through the village of Austwick. The village's church of the Epiphany was built as a lecture hall in 1839.

Today the parish of Fair Oak incorporates Horton Heath, and its population is now over 8,000.

Abbot Horton had started the work, and John Boyfield carried it on. It is one of the most perfect structures of its kind in existence.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.

Albert Fort, on the headland at one end of the bay, was built to guard the strategically important waters of the Solent.

Albert Fort, on the headland at one end of the bay, was built to guard the strategically important waters of the Solent.

Heights (just right of centre) is not, as local myth says, a wind- break for the golf course on the top of the Heights; it was actually constructed as a gunnery range for troops sta- tioned at Bovisand Fort, on

At the time this photograph was taken, the fort on the Nothe was equipped with quick-firing guns, searchlights and accommodation for a battalion of soldiers.

Magnus Barefoot built a timber fort on St Patrick's Isle between c1098-1103.

Much earlier than that it was a hill fort. One of the region's great landmarks, Ditchling Beacon reaches a height of over 800 feet and is the third highest point on the South Downs.

The village, thought to date to Saxon times, takes its name from the nearby hill-fort. On the left here is the Maltsters' Arms, still a thriving public house.

Magnus Barefoot built a timber fort on St Patrick's Isle in about 1098-1103; the bulk of the surviving fortifications date from the time of Thomas, First Earl of Derby, and were constructed in 1460-1504

Our Iron Age ancestors appreciated the importance of the site and built a hill fort on the top, but it was abandoned when the Romans conquered the region.

This photograph shows the skyline from the profile of Bell Stone (left, top) along to the ramparts of the Iron Age hill-fort on Eggardon Hill (right, top).

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Rodborough Fort, on the skyline, now masked by trees, remains an unmistakeable landmark.

Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale.

His was the thought behind the fortresses that were built in the late 1880s on and around Box Hill; there is still a fort on the summit of the hill, a testimony of a war that was never fought.