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On the hill stood Preesall village school. Like Baines Charity School in Poulton, the children held a barring-out day once a year when by tradition the master was locked out.

New substantial dwellings for the town's burgeoning middle class rise up towards Beacon Hill.

Hidden among the trees in the centre of our photograph is a foot (and animal) bridge just a few miles outside Dunsop Bridge.The hill on the left is called Knot or Sugar Loaf.

Until the 1960s, Charlton Kings railway station stood half a mile up the hill from this spot - its site is now an industrial park.

Shipton Hill is prominent on the distant skyline (centre). Manor Farm, Barr Lane and the Anchor Inn are partly hidden by trees in the middle distance (left).

Inland from Eype, towards the Marshwood Vale, Symondsbury clusters between Colmer's Hill and Old Warren Wood (centre skyline).

Down the hill are Alice Cottage, Chideock Court and Chapel Cottage. Trees partially obscure Bridge Cottage, By the Stream and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

It incorporates cellars cut into the sandstone of Castle Hill.

Its shows a cart ascending Moor Hill, past typically Kentish half-weatherboarded cottages.

Mount Lane climbs the hill towards St Peter`s Church on The Mount (right of centre).

On the right is One and All, a wine and spirit merchants, and next to it is Hill Brothers, grocers and spirit distillers, established in 1794.

Look south away from Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The steep, turfy slopes of its East and West Hills have recently been made more accessible by means of a lift. The bathing here is excellent in every way.

The castle, much enlarged by the Dukes of Norfolk, along with their Roman Catholic cathedral, dominates this picturesque hill town, giving it a distinctly French character in distant views.The bridge over

The carefully tended vegetable garden ascending the hill behind shows how important self-sufficiency was in these remote hamlets, in the days before motor vehicles and supermarkets.

Like other wool towns in the Cotswolds, such as Stroud, Painswick and Woodchester, Fairford has a 'Rack Hill'.

The terrace stepping down the hill on the left is dated 1880. The pump (just visible to the right of the steps) has now been joined by a Coronation seat.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.

Here the photographer looks across the High Street westwards from Church Headland Lane with the start of Market Hill to the left of the thatched cottage, Cobwebs.

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.