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These fields and the woods were carefully safeguarded from the post-railway Amersham on the Hill development to protect the setting of the old town.

It was taken literally weeks before the start of the building of a series of individual, sometimes rather grand villas, which were to extend from the heights of Highgate Hill to Crouch End.

In the 17th century an earlier fulling mill, called Cannop's Mill, stood on the site.

Large 19th-century houses line the road on the far side of the Common on Chaters Hill. In the grass on this side of the house on the right lies the mediaeval maze.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.

The Tower is on the hill to the left. In this glorious summer scene, boats are moored along the jetty.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

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

Just behind the roof is wooded Beacon Hill.

This is still one of Gorleston's most popular hotels, and nicely situated at the top of Cliff Hill.

The original hub of Witham was here, at Chipping Hill. As the town grew, its businesses drifted off to the main London-Colchester road. St Nicholas' was built c1330.

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

A semi-detached house of little architectural merit dominates the view here, but beyond is a glimpse of the Gumley Hills as the road swings right towards Saddington.

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

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.

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

The church of St Peter, standing further up the hill, has a nave and aisles dating from the early 13th century.The town name is believed to have come from the pagan worship of Thunor.

Today, parts of the old building (the arched doorway for example) can still be seen incorporated into the interior decor of a shop on Pride Hill.

Here we can see Winsford nestling in the Exe valley below Bye Hill, with the valley of the Winn winding up to the left.

Joseph Blount from nearby Rookery Farm had a horse called Tinker which could be hired to help carts up Hurstbourne Hill.

Wrotham stands at the foot of chalk hills alongside the Pilgrim's Way, and was once a substantial market centre.

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.