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To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair. This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

A nursemaid sits with her two charges enjoying the sun on Castle Hill. Behind, a seating area nestles in the remnants of some ancient building whose purpose is now unclear.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.

Above Torquay harbour stands Vane Hill, seen here from the Rock Walk.

Situated at the top of a steepish hill on the road from Heswall, the entrance to Beech Farm is on the right in our picture.

From Castle Hill we look down on the Esplanade, with the Beach Hotel in the middle distance.

Situated at the south-eastern edge of the Chiltern Hills, Woodcote stands about 500ft above sea level.

The Friday market was discontinued at the end of the 18th century.

The north side of the Market Place has seen many recent changes: The Marquis of Granby, partly dating from 1695, was restored in 1999 and the paint removed from its stonework.

This view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.

The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

On a nearby hill is an old cottage, once the abode of the notorious highwayman Jack Diamond, who is said still to haunt the area in ghostly form.

This fine clock tower was built to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.