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The grandeur of both St Peter's and Market Hill are shown to best advantage in the days before car parking.

When Marlborough Road was built in the 1960s, although it appears on a map to extend Duke Street towards the hill and one can walk through, there is no vehicular access between the two roads

Seen here at low tide, the old stone-built quay is reached by Quay Hill from Arwenack Street. At the far end is North Quay with the harbour tug company's office building.

The distant sand hills and Sea View Walk are still there, and look exactly the same.

This was the start of the Long March industrial estate, which now extends far to the right and some way towards Newnham Hill.

The Cleveland Hills lie on the horizon.

The large white building on the top of the hill is the Royal Hotel. It was built in 1837, just in time for the boom in tourism created by the new railways.

After crossing the ancient causeway known as the King's Highway (which runs from Belsars Hill at Willingham to Aldreth), we reach the green at Haddenham and the road to Ely.

The High Street widens out into the Broadway with Blucher Street merging from the left and the High Street continues north as far as the foot of White Hill.

The Corn Exchange, sitting on Market Hill in the far distance, was opened in 1869 and also served as the Court Leet, public meeting place and concert hall - in addition to its prime function.

Standing high above the town centre and attractively sited on the crown of the hill, the church with its elegant broach spire was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in c1861, but not completed until 1881

Look up the hill at the turn of the century, and see this posed but superbly evocative photograph of an attractive mixture of domestic building styles, culminating in the spire of Blomfield's Christ Church

Arts and Crafts-style buildings, and the churches of St Michael and All Angels and the Sacred Heart and St Mary Immaculate set the pace and quality at this new Mill Hill, away from the old centre but close

This featureless wave of suburbia grew up in the 1930s to cover the fields between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Pinner.

A view of Fore Hill, an attractive street which continues from the High Street, descending to the River Ouse.

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

The ridge of Hatterall Hill and the Black Mountains in the distance is the route for a walk with panoramic views to Hay Bluff.

The Welsh name for the Sugar Loaf is Pen Y Fal, meaning 'top of the round hill'.

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

A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.

Ascending the hill into the distance are some of the descendants of the trees of ancient Baram Wood.

At the top of the steps on the right was a fish and chip shop; its practice of throwing out vinegar caused the area to be nicknamed Vinegar Hill.

If there is any breeze blowing, it will blow onto Clee Hill, and consequently the village can sometimes be very bleak.

Beacon Hill, in the distance, was in the chain of warning beacons established when French and later Spanish invasions were feared in the 16th century.