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Gatesgarth is a place name which comes from Old Norse language, as do many in the higher hills of the Lake District. It means 'the pass where the goats go'.

Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.

The Poultry Sale Yard entrance on Market Hill is the wide doorway beyond the awning, right of centre.

This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.

A hill figure of a white horse was re-cut in the escarpment in 1924; it is visible from Cuckmere Haven. Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Norman church of St Nicholas is perched on a small hill near the castle ruins. There was a railway station nearby, but the line is now closed. Lavender Cottage dates back to the 15th century.

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century. This street is so free from traffic that a dog can sun himself in the roadway.

Oving Road runs east from the High Street; this view is taken beyond its junction with Market Hill looking west, showing the mix of building materials found in the village: timber-framing, brick, local

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

Each cottage comprises two dwellings, with a central door and a tiny hall. The lane curves gently down towards the ornamental lake at the foot of the hill. CORFE CASTLE, From the Church