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The steep, densely wooded gorge below Dartmeet is a wild, inaccessible place, and farmers, exhibiting their usual good sense, have never tried to cultivate it.

The Windmill, Argos Hill c1955.

South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust.

An evocative picture of the originally 11th-century church of St Mary and its blossoming churchyard in its lovely isolated setting overlooking the duck pond with good views towards Offham Hill.

Further up Castle Street and at its junction with Bristle Hill to the right and Elm Street on the left, the photographer is looking towards the great east window of the parish church.

A horse and cart in the distance is wending its way up the hill.

19th-century visitors wishing to get a good view of the town and castle were advised to climb the tower, known as Corrin's Folly, standing on Corrin's Hill (485ft).

19th-century visitors wishing to get a good view of the town and castle were advised to climb the tower, known as Corrin's folly, on Corrin's Hill (485 ft).

Symondsbury lies around the little river Simene, with the conical Colmer's Hill in the background.

Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

St Lawrence's Church provides good views towards Wincanton and the hills on the boundary with Dorset.

The spacious rectory is situated across the road from the church on Scale Hill.

The Whitewell Hotel in the Hodder Valley has long been famed for its hospitality and proximity to good fishing.

A spring flows beside the village street in Fulking, and on the side of the wellhouse is this text: 'He sendeth springs into the valley which run among the hills.

Clovelly hangs on the side of the hill, fringed by luxuriant woodland.

The hilliness of these parishes was often cited as the cause of the 'Pure Air and Good Health' lauded in the property advertisements.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

The lorry coming down the hill (left) is a sign of changing times; by the fifties most goods were being moved by road, and the ketches seen in photograph 63963 (p.73) were long gone.

Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

To the right, Newbridge Hill descends to the Tamar crossing into Devon, with a large chapel on the bend.

Thought to have been used since the Bronze Age, the track through the valley was one of several routes followed by packhorse drivers, who carried goods across the moorland hills between Lancashire

The Ragged Schools, Saffron Hill, set up the first society, and nine others followed.

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

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