This is the view from near Leith Hill Place in the Surrey Hills. The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams lived here from the ages of 2 to 20, and he returned to the area a few years later.
Vaughan Williams volunteered for military service in the First World War, and served as an ambulance orderly before being commissioned by the Royal Garrison Artillery.
A Pastoral Symphony was inspired by his experience in WWI. In 1938, he wrote to his wife: "It's really wartime music - a great deal of it incubated when I used to go up night after night with the ambulance wagon at Ecoivres and we went up a steep hill and there was a wonderful Corot-like landscape in the sunset - it's not really lambkins frisking at all as most people take for granted".