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Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps.

One of the huts of Blackdown Camp, with a group of soldiers and a bowler-hatted civilian.

The summit of Blackdown is several hundred feet above sea level, but it has strong connections with our maritime history.

Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871

Yarcombe is situated in a beautiful fold of the Blackdown Hills, one of the least spoiled parts of East Devon.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

This unusual picture shows the interior of one of the army buildings at Blackdown Camp.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

In the mid 19th century the wealthy Rev John Lance built himself a large vicarage and replaced the small 15th-century church with one so large that it was nicknamed the 'Cathedral of the Blackdown Hills

From there they fall away in a picturesque series of steps, rising again to the same level as Leith Hill at Hindhead and Black Down.

The photographer looks back down the hill past 19th-century houses towards the village centre.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

Formerly, it was a sea mill: the tide entered the pool, now ornamental, above it and then drained back down again.

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street.

We are at the top of Main Street, looking back down through the village from the bus station.