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Locals pronounce Slaithwaite 'Slawit', and this bustling village in the valley of the River Calder four miles south-west of Huddersfield is another one with Norse origins.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.

Branscombe runs down a beautiful little valley ('Brannoc's combe') to a break in the cliffs with a tiny beach.

Beyond the terraced streets of the village is Woodchester Mansion, set in a remote valley and keeping its secrets within an unfinished masterpiece of Victorian architecture; mysteries and

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

Earls Barton is surrounded by the lush countryside of the Nene valley, making it popular with house hunters.

Following the Wye valley for several miles, it then climbs steeply towards Taddington before plunging dramatically downhill to rejoin the river again. The road has not been improved very much today.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe

A spring flows beside the village street in Fulking, and on the side of the wellhouse is this text: 'He sendeth springs into the valley which run among the hills.

The small stone bridges still cross the beck in front of the village Post Office in the pretty village of Bishop Monkton, south of Ripon in the valley of the River Nidd.

Shipley, three miles north-west of Bradford, in the valley of the River Aire, is a busy town on the A65 Skipton Road.

It is said that the townspeople relished public executions, crowding the slopes on the opposite side of the valley to watch and cheer.

This area, however, was already occupied at a much earlier date - a Bronze Age axe was found at a settlement at Llanerch Padarn higher up the valley. The colliery finally closed in 1982.

The ivy-clad Western Terrace at Bolsover, built by Charles Cavendish's son, William, commands fine views over the valleys of the River Rother and Doe Lea.

A view along the north basin of the lake, including the islands of Belle Isle, Crow Holme, Maiden Holme and the two 'Lilies of the Valley'. A

Ashburton lies in the valley of the River Ashburn, which joins the Dart at Buckfastleigh.

Buckfast, a mile up the Dart valley from Buckfastleigh, was home to a community of Cistercian monks from the 10th century.

The brickworks chimney was a landmark in the Don Valley from 1891 to 1991.

At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct. Here primroses and bluebells grow in profusion in the pretty College Woods.

Sitting on a steep slope of the Avon Valley between Stroud and Nailsworth, Woodchester is home to one of the best Roman mosaic pavements in the country.

Nestling deep in a wooded valley, the tranquillity of this view is a world away from the busy A287 that runs through here today.

Here, about a mile below Devil's Bridge, the river's waters fall rapidly as they travel down the narrow and steep-sided Clydach Valley to the Usk.

Always a highly popular attraction, the miniature railway was opened in the Valley Gardens in 1947.

The lovely ruins of the early 13th-century abbey - in the tranquil valley of the river Teiser on the Kent/Sussex bor- der - are shown in this picture in their Victorian ivy-clad state.