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A greensand village, it is slightly off the beaten track and quiet: or at least quiet west of the B3000 Puttenham Hill road, which links the A31 and the A3.

This popular seaside resort sits in a wide sweep of bay on the north coast, with wooded hills behind the promenade, which fronts miles of safe sandy beach.

Behind the pub is Evergreen Hill, the home of Henrietta Barnet, the founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

This reflects its prominent position on the crown of a hill and at the junction of Upper High Street and High Street.

An ancient village recorded in the Domesday Book as Penictune, it has a stream flowing through it like Downham has, and it also lies at the foot of Pendle Hill.

The waters from the Malvern Hills nearby were then, as now, much better known. Tenbury Wells, The Church 1892 We are just across the border in Worcestershire here.

High on the hill are the abbey ruins and over to the left, the lovely Norman church of St Mary. The church is reached by a climb of 199 steps that leaves the fittest visitor beathless.

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street. The scene appears very quiet, with only one car and a cyclist to be seen.

Also known as Piper`s Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

On Mrs Grevill's death in 1942, the estate was willed to the National Trust and became their Southern Area Office. General Sir E Hamley was another who was afraid of an imminent invasion.

At one time the churchyard wall decayed, rainwater washed the soil away from the graves, and bones were taken down the hill, even into the water.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped

In November 1959 the council gave support for a 'skyscraper block of Continental styled luxury flats' at the bottom of Beach Hill – a 10-storey block heralded as 'the most modern in the country', comparable

At the top of the hill is the mainly 14th-century church of the Holy Trinity.

The Verneys of Claydon House in Middle Claydon, now a National Trust house, bought Steeple Claydon in 1705 from the Chaloner family, who are commemorated in the village road, Chaloners Hill.

The town is situated on one of Norfolk's rare hills, and some early houses had wells dug 105ft deep to obtain water.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

Highdown Hill, 269 feet high, was a Roman dwelling place and Saxon burial ground. Here, too, is the Miller's Tomb.

originally on the main Leicester/Melton Mowbray road until 1810, when Edward Parsons, who also put in the turnpike at Kibworth, built what amounts to a two-mile bypass from Rotherby to Chalk Pool Hill

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

Crown Street connects the Bullock Market and Market Hill. It takes its name from the Crown public house (right) opposite the turning to Bridge Street, now occupied by Woolworth`s.