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Since its official opening in Coronation year (1953) by Sir Noel Arkell, this area in the centre of the town has been known as Queens Park.

Pilley is one of six hamlets making up Boldre in the New Forest. The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

Weymouth became popular as a seaside resort thanks to the patronage of King George III, who came to bathe here for the good of his health.

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size, 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins – a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

A small village with a common on the Portsmouth to Guildford main road near the Hampshire border. Chalk quarrying is carried out on the hills here.

William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.

In between the dramatic hills of Great and Little Whernside, Coverham lies in a hollow 2 miles west of Middleham.

The symmetry of the ploughman's furrows consign the hills of Bryn Arw and the Sugar Loaf to a background role.

This fine gateway is 13th-century in style, but was rebuilt by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who became Lord of the Manor in 1621.

The second Roman villa referred to earlier lies beneath the furthermost of the large fields in the foreground, known as Great Stanborough.

In the 18th century, Farningham was a stopping place on the main London-Dover road, but was by-passed with the construction of the A20.

It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

The Holy Well is probably the oldest known well on the Edge.

The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966. On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.

The lanes from Bentham lead on to the A46, behind the photographer. Cheltenham is six miles away. This is an early shot of the Crosshands roundabout at Brockworth.

From the rear of the Black Boy are fine views towards North Marston, the hill dropping sharply into the valley.

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

It is interesting to remember that a settlement existed on this site for nearly two millennia before the foundation of neighbouring Bournemouth.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

At the foot of the hill is a junction. Left is for Nether Wallop and right is for Over Wallop. Out of sight by the café sign is a large roadside pub, The George Inn.