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Burgess Hill is one of the mid 19th-century settlements created on enclosed Wealden commons.

This wooded hill in the town centre is topped by the ruins of a Norman castle, whose builders might not be entirely surprised to find that the outer bailey now houses a zoo: after all, exotic animals were

Cosily tucked away in a fold of the sandstone hills south-east of Godalming, Mare Lane leads to the highest point of the Down at Hydons Ball, where it reaches 593 feet.

The Swan Inn, with its tall chimney and man working on a ladder, is near the bottom of the hill.

Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle Top.

This view shows Penwortham Hill and the climb out of Preston on the Liverpool/Southport road. The newly-erected Penwortham War Memorial is on the right.

The Lion Enclosure was one of those specifically accommodated into a natural feature of Castle Hill. Here two of its occupants sun themselves.

This photograph shows Lordens Hill on a somewhat gloomy day.There are few cars parked along the street, but in those days private car ownership amid working families was still something of a novelty.The

Leading to Runcorn Hill, Highlands Road and the surrounding area is a lovely part of the town. Of the cottages shown here only the one in the foreground still survives.

Just visible on the far right at the top of the hill is the day beacon, an 80ft stone tower which marks the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary, as the entrance is almost impossible

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme. Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

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

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

The outer quay has been extensively redeveloped, but St Nicholas's chapel atop Lantern Hill is still there. The building to the rear of the quay was - and is - the lifeboat station.

Branscombe lies amid what a previous vicar described as 'a perfect jumble of hills'.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

The Bank Café lies on the right, and it is clearly a warm summer day in view of the number of parked cars at the bottom of the hill.

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

There have been relatively few changes here, one of the best being that the Imperial Café is now a second hand bookshop called Castle Hill Books.

The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton 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.

This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

Many of the cottages lining Quay Street, which leads below North Hill to the harbour, belonged to fishermen who once sailed after herring.