A Ladder Stile over a stone wall in Caernarfonshire, North Wales.

This type of stile has good hand support at the top so that you can steady yourself as you go from one side to the other.

A stile, in Caernarfonshire, North Wales, built in to a stone wall as a series of steps. The top step is by the person's bent knee.

These stiles can be a little more difficult to negotiate than other types because when you get to the top of the wall there is nothing for you to hold in order to steady yourself as you change sides.

A very simple stile with a footpath through a meadow beyond, in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.

A simple stile often known as a Gap or Squeeze stile at the back of a churchyard in Essex.