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This fine gateway is 13th-century in style, but was rebuilt by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who became Lord of the Manor in 1621.

The second Roman villa referred to earlier lies beneath the furthermost of the large fields in the foreground, known as Great Stanborough.

In the 18th century, Farningham was a stopping place on the main London-Dover road, but was by-passed with the construction of the A20.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

The Holy Well is probably the oldest known well on the Edge.

The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966. On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.

The lanes from Bentham lead on to the A46, behind the photographer. Cheltenham is six miles away. This is an early shot of the Crosshands roundabout at Brockworth.

From the rear of the Black Boy are fine views towards North Marston, the hill dropping sharply into the valley.

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

It is interesting to remember that a settlement existed on this site for nearly two millennia before the foundation of neighbouring Bournemouth.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

At the foot of the hill is a junction. Left is for Nether Wallop and right is for Over Wallop. Out of sight by the café sign is a large roadside pub, The George Inn.

It is mid-afternoon in the quiet main street of Sandgate, with a single-decker tramcar passing by on its way to Folkestone.

In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill. A

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.

Brewhouse Hill leads from Wheathampstead to the hamlet of Amwell (not to be confused with the village, south of Ware, of the same name.)

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Overspending on civic projects is not peculiar to present-day administrations, for the final bill for Rochdale's Town Hall was over 7½ times the original £20,000 estimate when it eventually opened in 1871

Notice the arch on the right, built to help ease the passage of water during times of flood. The view upstream beyond the bridge is to Pendle Hill, whose summit is 1,745 feet above sea level.