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South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

The last passenger train ran in 1958, but there was a brief renaissance when the Dart Valley Railway took over the line.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.

On weekdays, the main railway line from the Rhondda valley to Barry carried coal to the docks, but it was used on Sundays and bank holidays by excursion trains to the seaside.

These civic gardens are in the Trenance Valley and fringe the River Gannel as it twists away from the eastern edge of the town.

Here we see a quiet summer scene in the valley bottom, where the Wadebridge road crosses the River Camel at the foot of a long descent from Bodmin.

The A465 road on its way westwards from Abergavenny links several South Wales valleys. The stretch from Abergavenny to Ebbw Vale rises at its highest point to 1350ft.

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).

Its layout is extremely elongated, with the castle and market area at one end and the church (with presumably the original settlement site) up on the hill on the other side of the valley.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

Here we see the entrance to the charming little village of Wass, which lies in a shallow valley under the wooded southern escarpment of the Hambleton Hills, seen in the background.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

From its depot in Reading, having stopped at Shinfield, Arborfield, Eversley and Yateley, a Thorneycroft J Type bus operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company has yet to make a pick up in Derby Green

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

The Forge Valley is a delightful winding drive through the forest.

As we look across toward the village, we can see that the land is rough scrubland, nothing like the fertile valleys which the visitor will come to know.

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

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

This charmingly-situated little watering-place lies in a sheltered valley, and its garden-girt villas are further beautified by a sparkling brook, spanned by numerous rustic bridges.

These provided cliff top walks and secluded valleys, easily accessed later in the century by the Cliff Railway.

Tourism was given a boost in the 1840s when the North Staffordshire Railway opened its line through the Churnet Valley.

In the valley he built Waddesdon, an estate village. On the left is the Five Arrows Hotel, a splendid Arts and Crafts building with elaborate moulded brick chimneys, built in 1887.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.