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Additional defences comprised fixed gun positions at Cloch Point, Toward Point and on Castle Hill, Dunoon.

Fore Hill is an attractive street which continues on from the High Street, descending to the River Ouse.

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

This set of 16 locks is part of the famous flight of 29 at Caen Hill.

In a document dated 1295 this area was referred to as 'Runcoure Superior' - this had nothing to do with the class of people who lived here but referred to the fact that it was on the hill

King George is commemorated by a statue in the town and a carved chalk figure on the hills nearby.

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

Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre). The shopkeeper Edward Archer Vince (centre right) ran the archetypal general store, and could claim to supply just about everything.

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.

The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.

The station entrance sign can be glimpsed behind Hill's footwear store (centre).

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

Bilsdale Hall is hidden behind the trees (centre). Chisel Hill Mill (left) reminds us of local industry powered by the River Eller. Out of shot, top left, is the beguiling little church of St Hilda.

High up on the hills, this was lead mining country. Now tourists come to see the four-mile-long array of caves discovered by miners in 1858.

It matched similar gateways at his home, Burley-on-the-Hill. The wrought iron gates were added in 1872, replacing wooden doors.

His brand new Volvo once rolled, driverless, across Blandford Road and into Pardy's Hill, coming to rest harmlessly against the tree (centre).

In the far distance, across the Severn, is May Hill, with its distinctive pine copse. Today, the M5 bisects the agricultural land in the middle distance.

The villages in this area are situated on the Magnesian limestone hills, which are typical of the east Durham countryside between Hartlepool and South Shields.

The Lion Hotel, down the hill, was a grand coaching inn whose gardens run down to the River Darent.

The Hill of Bran rises just to the north-east of Llangollen; perched high upon its summit is the ruin of Castell Dinas Bran.

In fact these huge blocks slithered down the sides of the hills after the last ice age, and have sometimes been mis- taken for resting sheep.

Looking east from Blucher Street this view shows how steeply the chalk hills rise behind the town, still undeveloped.

There is still plenty of stone, although not the wonderful golden oolitic limestones from Ham Hill and the far south of the county; here we have the Blue Lias, a thin limestone which can only

The Town Hall, also built as a corn market, was opened by the Duke of Wellington in 1833; a 173 feet obelisk monument to the Duke is on Wellington Hill to the south of the town.