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

The far distant houses are built on the sand hills, and would get the full force of any gales. All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

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.

From Bridgwater we head south-east into Sedgemoor to Othery, a village built on a low hill that rises 60 feet above the Moors.

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.

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.

On the right is St Peter's, the parish church of Blaenavon, built by the ironmasters Hopkins and Hill in 1805.

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

The village of Palnackie is set in a region of wooded hills and streams.

Now known as Truro School, the college was founded on the hill overlooking the city 10 years before this photograph was taken, 'affording a thorough English education at a moderate cost' for up to 120

In the Domesday Book it was spelt as it is today; the name comes from either 'halgh', an ancient word for hill, or from an Icelandic invader named Hella who settled here.

Here we see the buildings on the harbour wall of the Cobb, as we look eastwards through the entrance (left) to Cain's Folly and Stonebarrow Hill, from where National Trust land now extends to Golden Cap

The Cathedral spire dominated the surrounding countryside in previous centuries just as it does today.This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland

The station and crossing is at the bottom of the hill, and next to the Station Tavern (centre right) is now a new signal box.

Although the busy A24 now thunders past the old forge at the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic Italian restaurant named Frascati, and with

This is one of the numerous large country homes which were constructed in this favoured part of the Surrey hills during Queen Victoria's reign.

Perched on the greensand ridge high above its village, the delightful All Saints' parish church is built in the dark brown stone extracted from the hills around it.

The River Wey rises below the great escarpment of Ridgeway Hill.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

St Teresa's Convent was established in Effinghamhill House, a stucco early 19th- century mansion in the chalk hills two miles south of Effingham village.