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Built on a hill, Downham Market has extensive views over the River Ouse and the fens.

Not much more than a stone's throw from Jack Straw's Castle, the original Old Bull and Bush can be seen on the right of shot.

The bridge over the stream in the foreground is an ancient stone slab or 'clapper' bridge; there are many of these in Exmoor, including the famous Tarr Steps across the River Barle, five miles

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

Many of the villagers worked for the Lascelles family before the village was sold off to pay death duties at about the time this picture of Stock's Hill was taken.

In this region the fertile farmland ascends to the top of the hill, and it is pleasing to note hedgerows, not stone walls, dividing the fields.

Objections kept the hill clear until 1899, when this new tower (which raised the view from 900 feet to a thousand feet above sea level) was opened on 24 June.

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

The stone walls of St Peter's Church, to the north of the forecourt to Doddington Hall, are a marked contrast to the mellow red brick of the Hall, which might be by Robert Smythson, the architect of Hardwick

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

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.

It may have been created in 1740, when two overhanging stones fell down the hill, making the houses in the Hough shake, and, according to legend, squashing an old woman and her cow.

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

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

The houses are divided from the hill by a vein of stiff clay (good wheat land), yet stand on a rock of white stone.'

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

This stone arch was built in 1869 to carry raw materials to the iron furnaces.

Behind the photographer is the 1597 water conduit, while in the distance is the stone front of the Angel Hotel.

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

The 'oe' at the end comes from the Old English 'hoh', meaning a hill or promontory.

Seen here at low tide, the old stone-built quay is reached by Quay Hill from Arwenack Street.

On the left is a pub known as the Malt Shovel, and the 480 bus has journeyed to this point from Temple Hill.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

The castle, much enlarged by the Dukes of Norfolk, along with their Roman Catholic cathedral, dominates this picturesque hill town, giving it a distinctly French character in distant views.The bridge over