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Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

A retired steelman looks across the industrial landscape of Stocksbridge, the steel-making town in the valley of the River Don between Sheffield and Penistone, on the edge of the Pennine moors.

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland, and only the hardiest of early tourists made their way this deeply into the dale.

In 1899 the council took the decision to acquire the Rivelin Valley and made a number of purchases of land over the coming years.

Bishopsbourne is next to the Nailbourne, which runs along the Elham Valley eventually to become the Little Stour.

This view from the west shows John Smedley's massive Hydro on the opposite side of the valley, which brought spa town prosperity to the town after its erection in 1853.

The Ladybower Reservoir, the last in the series of three which flooded the Upper Derwent Valley, was built to provide water for Sheffield and the East Midlands.

The valley of the River Seaton runs inland from the beach to Hessenford.

Cranham has not suffered too much at the hands of unsympathetic development over the years, partly because it is situated in a steep valley and surrounded by dense woodland.

What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

The Old Steine (pronounced 'steen') is the traditional centre of Brighton - in earlier times it was a broad grassy valley where fishermen dried their nets.

This early cotton mill in the valley of the River Wye was the scene, if the propaganda is to be believed, of some of the worst horrors of the exploitation of child labour in the 19th century.

The River Aire cuts a winding course through broad pastures, stony valleys and bustling industrial areas on its way to join the Ouse and the open sea at Asselby Island.

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 Gatesgarthdale Beck flows through the valley. To the left can be seen the workings of the Honister Slate Quarry, which produced some of the finest-quality green slate roofing and walling.

The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley. Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

Malton stands at the junction of several roads above the Derwent Valley south of the North York Moors, and has been an important market centre since the Middle Ages.

Motorists drive this way today to visit the shell keep of the medieval castle standing high above the Fowey valley.

It is said that two giants were digging in the area to form the valley of the River Severn, and the Wrekin was formed from all the spoil they dug out.

There were several dramatic floods in the valley of the Stour in the last half of the 20th century, though its waters seem calm and restrained in this photograph.

A local character lounges on a wall on the left in the charming and unspoilt village of Morland, in the Eden Valley. A

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.