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Peveril Castle stands on a hill 260ft above the village, yet despite its looks it was far from impregnable; it was even in Scottish hands for a number of years.

The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.

The photographer is standing on Monks Hill, looking down the winding road that leads to the centre of the original village.

In the distance are the trees of Merks Hill - itself a known site of Roman habitation - and on our left is the ribbon development that had started creeping along this road in the 1920s.

Station Road is readily recognisable as it drops away from the underground station towards Hale Lane and Mill Hill.

What a contrast to the previous photograph this view of Kirkgate, Otley is. The lovely market town lies at the entrance to Wharfedale.

The octagonal building standing in the centre of the high street was erected in 1609 as a market from which the famous locally-produced broadcloth was sold.

Looking down from the White Horse can be seen the flat-topped Dragon's Hill where, legend has it, St George slew the Dragon; the white markings on the side are where the blood of the Dragon ran down in

Pendleton nestles right in the shadow of Pendle Hill: in fact, the name means 'the houses on Pendle'.

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

At the top of Lantern Hill (centre right), 100 feet above sea level, stands the Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, fittingly enough, and also of scholars.

This view of Pateley Bridge, 'capital' of Nidderdale, was taken from Station Square and the bridge over the River Nidd.

The park is a pleasant interlude between Birkenhead Road and Meols Parade on the seafront.

The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe. The harbour was once connected with local mines by a railway - the tracks can be seen on the left of the photograph.

These coastal heights rise between Seatown and Eype Mouth, comprising Ridge Cliff (far centre), Doghouse Hill, and the 508ft summit of Thorncombe Beacon (right) above East Ebb Cove and GreatEbb (near centre

This view looks west from Aberamffra Hill and harbour, just east of Barmouth. The swing bridge is visible on the left.

Beside it, dwarfed by a huge sycamore tree, are the thatched Three Horseshoes Inn and tiled Way Cottage (left of centre). The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge.

Reaching the top of Steep Hill, the photographer looks west from Exchequer Gate, the medieval gatehouse into the cathedral close, towards the Castle gatehouse.

Botley Station (entrance on the left of the photograph), which is approached via Mill Hill, is well outside the village. One descends to it from a road bridge.

On the hill above the town stands the ruin of Knaresborough Castle, destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

Beyond Anchor Hill the high street passes the churchyard with its gatepiers and gates presented by Eliza Howard in 1901.

This is a closer view of the town. At this date it is still surrounded by the countryside, and woodland dominates the skyline.

Old - or Upper - Sheringham is on a hill well inland; the town only developed towards the sea in the late 19th and early 20th century.