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This picture gives a fine view up Surgery Hill and across the middle of Rhymney.

By the end of the 19th century, Church Road was Burgess Hill's main shopping centre.

Ten years later, the designer Laura Ashley opened a mill in the village to mark the start of what has become a fashion empire still in business throughout Britain today.

At the very top of the street is the Lion, where George Hill was also a baker and confectioner.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby. The wide, open green provides space for visitors.

As we look at this mundane street as it drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning

The backdrop to this scene is Coopers Hill, where each Whit Monday the famous cheese-rolling event takes place.

It was developed from clay pits left over from old brickworks; it had formerly been the site of earthworks for an ill-founded attempt to excavate a tunnel through Swindon hill for the Swindon, Marlborough

A temporary bridge was erected from a ledge below the Store or Detachment Shelter on the left to Castle Hill, which allowed the passage of building materials and labourers from mainland to

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

Perched high on its hill in the background at left is the tower erected to commemorate John Cabot's voyage.

To the right of the picture are the Hall, now the Crown Inn, and the church. Behind the war memorial is Church House, the former Guildhall.

Additional defences comprised fixed gun positions at Cloch Point, Toward Point and on Castle Hill, Dunoon.

Fore Hill is an attractive street which continues on from the High Street, descending to the River Ouse.

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

This set of 16 locks is part of the famous flight of 29 at Caen Hill.

In a document dated 1295 this area was referred to as 'Runcoure Superior' - this had nothing to do with the class of people who lived here but referred to the fact that it was on the hill

King George is commemorated by a statue in the town and a carved chalk figure on the hills nearby.

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre). The shopkeeper Edward Archer Vince (centre right) ran the archetypal general store, and could claim to supply just about everything.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.

The station entrance sign can be glimpsed behind Hill's footwear store (centre).

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.