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Behind are spectacularly steep pine-clad hills.

It is now restored and car free; the central areas are surfaced with Denner Hill setts, a hard stone from the Chilterns above High Wycombe which is used all over the south of the county for kerbs and

The name Downham means 'dwelling by the hill' - the hill is obviously Pendle, which can be seen in the background.

This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle.

By 1100 he had added a stone keep to his castle, which was built on a natural hill overlooking the Adur.

This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle.

By the 1900s the best stone had been worked out from the area so in the 1920s it was laid out as parkland.

There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby.

The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.

This photograph was taken from Windmill Hill, the only point in the town that is higher than the castle.

This sizeable hamlet on the Downs south of Harting has no church, but boasts some attractive flint cottages and fine scenery.There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre

The walls have been constructed of flints (which are copious in the chalk hills of the South Downs) and edged with stone at the windows and doors.

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

The town-village grew up where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Arun.

This route heads for the beautiful Mendip Hills, the carboniferous limestone ridge that separates the Avon valley and Bath and Bristol from the rest of Somerset.

Symondsbury is an intimate little village positioned between two rounded hills, and probably on the route of a medieval road linking Bridport and Axminster.

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port.

This peaceful village lies below the slopes of the Greensand Hills.

Tuesday and Friday, animals were transported all over Lancashire.The origin of the name Clitheroe is surrounded by doubt and mystery.The 'oe' at the end comes from the Old English 'hoh', mean- ing a hill

They were either left intact or re-set when Captain George Fanshawe of the Royal Engineers rebuilt all the other walls of the Cobb with smooth Portland stone in 1825-26.

Perched on the greensand ridge high above its village, the delightful All Saints' parish church is built in the dark brown stone extracted from the hills around it.

The River Wey rises below the great escarpment of Ridgeway Hill.

The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.