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William Crowe, rector of Stoke, wrote a paean of praise to Lewesdon Hill, which drew the admiration of William Wordsworth: '...of hills, and woods and fruitful vales, and villages, half-hid in tufted

Being on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, Loftus is surrounded by some lovely countryside and the woods on the outskirts of the town have long provided a place of peace and tranquillity

The castle and the south-eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to the wooded slopes

This house has been restored and is typical of 15th-century building in the wooded Weald.

Its Anglo-Saxon name means 'wooded hill in the territory of Billa's people'.

From Boarsbarrow Hill, this view looks to St Mary Magdalene Parish Church and Georgian Loders Court, which is the home of Viscount and Viscountess Hood (centre). The woods of Waddon rise behind.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

From here we can see Richmond to the east and the sweep of Swaledale to the west. The painter Turner was very fond of this place.

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

With its modern tower and spire rising 140 feet above Twyford, the handsome church looks out across woods and meadows towards the bank of the Itchen.

The downs to the west of the Arun are notably more wooded than those to the east, which are remarkably open and treeless.

The wooded nature of the river banks is noticeable, and only the industrial scene on the far right of the picture would suggest that this is near the centre of a busy modern industrial town.

One of the pleasantest ascents of Pilsdon Pen, the highest hill in Dorset, is from Beaminster and up through Stoke Abbot.

The railed and culverted Thornton Beck runs through the village of Thornton Dale, east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors.

The Dripping Well in Anchor Woods was a popular spot with the Victorians. To the left, a kissing gate gives onto a path which now leads to the Tarka Trail.

The name Fulwood comes from the Old English and means 'dirty or foul wood'. Here we see the main road leading north from Preston and the Methodist Church.

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

The central doors, which can just be seen in this photograph, were made by the famous wood carver, Thompson of Kilburn: his signature, a mouse, is carved on the right-hand door.

Above the second shop on the left, the wood is brown and its walls are cream; the second bay window has been removed. The fifth shop along is Boots, which now occupies three of the shop fronts.

In summer the wooded slopes above are a mass of myrtle and hydrangea. East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

Southend pier is the longest in the world, reaching out one and a quarter miles (2 kms) into the Thames estuary.

Once surrounded by forested land, this church boasts remarkable timbered west and south porches built in the early 14th century, and comprising some fifty tons of oak wood.

This view looks down on Reynard's Cave and the River Dove. The wooded slopes in the background are on the Staffordshire bank of the Dove, and rise to Air Cottage on the top of the hill opposite.