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The Lickey Hills are actually in Worcestershire, and so is this road junction, though only just. As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.

The Lickey Hills are actually in Worcestershire, and so is this road junction, though only just. As the hills are owned by Birmingham, it is reasonable to include the area in this book.

Mid-way between Chailey and Haywards Heath is Scaynes Hill, and this photograph shows the summit of the hill. Though there is still a pub here, it is now called the Farmers.

The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking.

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left), in

Oakfield Corner, built around 1910 and part of the earlier phase of Amersham on the Hill's expansion, chose the vernacular and timber-framed tradition for its shops with flats above.

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

Though parts of Pendle Hill reach over 1,900ft, it never quite makes it to 2,000 feet—the height when a hill becomes a mountain.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Highcliffe's immediate neighbour to the right has always been known in the town as Green Hill, a distinct hillock with a rocky outcrop on its northern face.

This is a fine example of Bridport`s eastern countryside, with the Dorset Downs falling away into the Marshwood Vale (far left) from the heights of Eggardon Hill and woods of Knowle Hill (left),

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

The one thing that has not changed about Dudley Castle is the spectacular views afforded from Castle Hill.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

This is London Road, once known as Red Hill, leading up to Scale Hill. On the left is a noticeboard and gate giving access to Highfields and the Middle sports field.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

New in 1772, the road was built to bypass congested town centres from Star Hill, Rochester to the bottom of Chatham Hill.

Beyond in the trees is the village of Burton Bradstock (centre) with the chalk hills between Bridport and Dorchester forming the distant skyline.

For more than a century, from 1863 till 1965, passenger trains of the Somerset and Dorset Railway (centre) passed through Shillingstone en route from Bournemouth to Bath.

Castle Hill is next to Coopers Hill, and is best accessed from the Abbotswood estate in Brockworth, or from a footpath off the A46.

This view, from Parson's Hill between the deep tree-filled Hawk Combe and the A39, looks across the small town below to Hurlstone Point.

This stretch of road, leading south from Peaslake to Ewhurst, descends from the steep shoulder of Coneyhurst Hill, or Pitch Hill, which at 844ft is the third of the summits in the Leith Hill chain.