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There are any number of pictures of the mills in the archive, but not a single one of the twenty-three arched railway viaduct straddling the valley of the Bollin.

The Thames emerges from the Goring Gap at Pangbourne, and the valley widens out again. This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

Its old name was Cwm Pwca (Puck's valley); local legend has it that Shakespeare knew a family in Aberclydach, and wrote 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' here.

Another view showing Cat Nab, with Saltburn's Marine Parade standing high on the opposite side of the valley.

Visitors relax in the splendour of Valley Gardens, and tea is served from the Sun Pavilion. The spa trade declined in the 1920s - although more visitors came, they spent less money.

On its no-through road in a short valley leading to the Cuckmere River, it feels amazingly isolated amid the Friston Forest.

To the east is Markland Grips, an Iron Age hillfort on an outcrop above a craggy limestone valley.

Rottingdean has a long history; it is named after the valley - 'dene' - which runs down to the sea. The view has not changed substantially in the past 30 years.

Taken from the edge of Parsonage Woods to the north of the town, this view, almost unchanged today, looks past the cornfield towards the historic market town nestling in its Chiltern valley.

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

The train facing the camera is waiting to depart for the Luxulyan valley and Newquay.

As it climbs the area known as Golden Valley, the scenery is magnificent. This is the Bell Lock near Chalford: the lock around the corner is known (unsurprisingly) as the Red Lion.

Strangely, no Edwardian Barumites (the local name for Barnstaple residents) are enjoying a summer walk along Taw Valley Parade. Note the weather recording station in the white box on the left.

Prinknash (pronounced Prinnage) Abbey is for the most part a very modern building, rising stark from the valley.

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.

The narrow hedge-lined lane with unspoiled views over the Brighton Road valley remained until the late 1920s when the lane was widened and houses rapidly appeared.

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

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

Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.

Polperro's narrow valley is particularly prone to flash floods; in the drought summer of 1976 a sudden downpour changed the stream into a raging torrent which threw cars around like corks and deposited

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.

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.