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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.

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

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

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.

Painswick was a market centre for the smaller villages along the valley.

The main street of Cross Hills in the Aire Valley near Keighley was virtually deserted when the Frith photographer called.

The church is that of St Andrew, which lies on the western edge of a steep-sided valley, two miles north of Presteigne.

Dominating the countryside around, and particularly impressive from the Bathampton side of the valley, Brown's Folly was built on the summit ridge of Bathford Hill in 1840.

This Wiltshire village grew up on three roughly parallel terraces on the steep and well-wooded Avon valley side, with the parish church at the south end.

Harcombe runs roughly parallel to Yawl; it is another long combe running north from the main valley of the River Lim.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

Helston is pleasantly sited on a hill, above a picturesque valley. It was once a walled settlement with a castle.

In 1995, just beside the old Butlin camp, the modern chalets of Primrose Valley Holiday Camp were built. The building of the new town of Filey began in 1840, and by 1867 it was a bustling resort.

The Hope Valley railway line, in the middle distance, was opened in 1894, making the village even more attractive to commuters.

A view from the gardens of the imposing front of Cliff College at Calver, in the valley of the River Derwent, near Bakewell.

This view of the Swiss Valley, however, shows not a natural lake but a beautiful drowned basin, which now supplies the West Midlands with its precious natural resource.

The four reservoirs of this valley were created between 1892 and 1903 from a 9-mile-long string of natural lakes to feed the demands of Birmingham.

This classic view looks west down High Street to the Wey valley and beyond to Guildown (The Mount).

Cowling is a moorland parish in the Aire Valley about six miles south of Skipton. It once boasted several woollen mills – we can see their chimneys in this view.

The hilly region ends with the valley of the Sulby, to the north of which is a plain'.

Petham is a small village set in a valley just off the Roman Stane Street that runs from Canterbury to Lympne. There are remains of entrenchments here, constructed during the Roman invasion.