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The River Barle appears here little more than a placid stream, but in 1953 a devastating flood swept through Dulverton from the hills above, inundating the bridge and destroying the cottages at the far

Further west along Main Street, looking towards Lyme Regis, the plateau of Langdon Hill forms the skyline (centre). The cart is beside Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage (left).

An enigma to this day, the purpose of Silbury Hill remains a mystery. Local legend had it that in ages past King Sil was buried here on horseback.

Looking down the hill from above the station, we see the bridge carrying the Settle- Carlisle railway line running along the edge of the village.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

The pebble and sandy beach provides views along the coast to Worthing pier; just a short distance inland are the grassy slopes of Highdown Hill, which has long been a popular recreational

At the top of the hill behind the trees stands the Territorial Army building and the town centre.

At the time before the coming of the motor car in significant numbers, there were many roads like this in the Lake District, and life continued among the hills at the same leisurely pace as it had

St Mary's Church dominates the photograph from its well-treed setting, with to its right the sheer elevation of The Foss and Grove Hill by Habershon, and to its left the Speech Room tower and chapel fleché

This village prospered thanks to the quarries on Ham Hill, and the High Street has some fine 17th-century houses built in Ham stone.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

Originally a 13th-century farm, the building became a halt for packhorse trains carrying wool across the hills.

The hall up the hill on the left dates from 1914.

The reason is the massive shopping centre at nearby Merry Hill, opened in the 1980s on the site of a former steelworks.

It had an impressive system of inclined planes to deal with the hills inland, but fell into disuse; today only the short seaward end is in use.

Port Isaac made front page news in 1999 when local farmer Robert Sloman's Landrover went out of control on the steep hill behind the village.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

Above the town, rising to 900ft, is Painswick Beacon with its golf course and ancient British hill fort.

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

The steep little street next to Jesse S Raddall (now a bistro called Three Steps to Heaven) is Angel Hill.