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Golden Cap rises at the centre, with tree-coverd Langdon Hill (top right) to landward.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.

Best Outfitters are in the three-storey building, beyond which the Lily Hotel projects towards the road, with Colmer's Hill being the distinctive hilltop (centre).

Their canted full-height bay windows step down the hill in an elegant rhythm.

We can see that the village lies on a slope; Pendle Hill rises behind.

The village is a stopping-point on the way north or south along the coast, with just a prehistoric burial chamber and some beautiful hill walks to delay the traveller - unless you were making for the large

Nestling just under the hills surrounding the North York Moors is the old settlement of Ampleforth, built around the early abbey of St Lawrence.

But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

The fountain was removed during road improvements in the 1980s; it was rescued from the council dump by the Old Cornwall Society, and was re-erected near the reservoir on Windmill Hill.

Now on the B3254 to Bude, St Stephens Hill was one of the roads administered by the Turnpike Trust, who set the tolls.

The field in the foreground, with its flint wall, lies to the south of East Blatchington Farm; the view looks south down Blatchington Hill, the village main street, with Belgrave Road passing in front

This sizeable village, close by Liskeard, sprawls along a hill-top surrounded by high moorland. All around are the ruins of engine houses and copper mines.

Looking west past the Memorial Gardens, the white building on the far hill, just to the left of the church tower, is Shardeloes, the Georgian mansion of the lords of the manor.

Viewed from the Corn Exchange on Market Hill, Luton's main street on a summer's day just before the turn of the 19th century gives little indication of the importance of this thoroughfare.

By the time the lake silted up in the 1830s, the name Hoylake had replaced Hoose, the original name of the village that nestled in the sand-hills on the fringes of Liverpool Bay.

The view is eastwards to Stonebarrow Hill and Cain's Folly (top left) and the familiar profile of Golden Cap (central skyline) with Thorncombe Beacon to the east (right).

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north-west corner of the Town Hall.

Geese run loose on the grass at Mannington hamlet, midway between the villages of Holt and Horton in the hills north of Wimborne.

Here Nailsworth is seen from the 'W', the zigzag hill road linking it to Box village. By 1900 the 'Pepperpot Church' has been replaced by St George's as we know it today.

A small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes. The shutters in the sails were set manually, one sail at a time.

The picturesque loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the Roman road which once went from Preston to York.

Tuesday and Friday, animals were transported all over Lancashire.The origin of the name Clitheroe is surrounded by doubt and mystery.The 'oe' at the end comes from the Old English 'hoh', mean- ing a hill