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A favourite outing with holidaymakers was to take the Snaefell Mountain Railway to where it crossed the Douglas to Ramsey road at the Bungalow Hotel, and then walk along the road through the valley to

Berrynarbor sits on the side of the Sterridge valley. St Peter's Church is the main landmark. It is mainly a 15th-century building, with the sandstone tower dated to 1480.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Frome valley, dotted with mills and and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry. Chalford itself stands on the steep north bank.

Reedham, in the broad, silent expanses of the Yare valley, was once a thriving North sea port. The chain ferry pictured offers the only passage across the Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth.

Ashwood Dale is just one of the names given to the deep limestone valley of the River Wye as it winds between Bakewell and Buxton.

Now being gradually subsumed into Aldershot's 21st-century sprawl, Tongham was once an important part of the brewing business in the Blackwater Valley, as the chimney of the oast house at this crossroads

The ivy-clad inn on the left of the photograph is the Miller of Mansfield, a famous pub in the Thames Valley.

These ornamental pools are located higher up the valley and are fed by Peasholm Beck. The roof of a pagoda can be seen in the centre; it is situated on an island in the main lake.

In the right foreground is a mill pond on a tributary valley. Godalming was well known for its manufacture of cloth, and the mill with its tall chimney is a reminder of this industrial heritage.

The Great Western line between Exeter and Plymouth crosses the valley on a graceful viaduct, and this can be seen in the distance.

This leafy flint village is situated in the Cuckmere valley near Alfriston. Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex.

The rich fields of the Tamar Valley have long been the source of Plymouth's fruit and vegetables.

Although it is set in the heart of the largely industrialised Aire Valley, Steeton retains its air of rural tranquillity.

There are fine views across the Derwent valley from here towards Matlock and Riber Castle.

Alkham is an attractive little village nestling in the valley of the river Dour between Folkestone and Dover.

The lake at Crookes Valley Park is in fact one of Sheffield's older reservoirs, converted for use as a boating lake and for fishing.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.

Set in the valley of the River Aire, Bingley was once the classical picture of a 19th-century worsted-weaving and textile town, with its great mills and tall smokestacks.