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St Thomas's was once a chapel of ease to St Stephen's church, down in the valley next to the River Kensey and close to Launceston priory, of which some ruins remain.

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

We look down through the ironwork of the churchyard entrance to the water splash, and up to Stay Barn on the other side of the Brett valley.

Standing at the head of the Eastern Valley, in an industrially ravaged landscape, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.

On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire.

Other nature trails in the district are Blackstone Riverside Park, Bewdley; Hartlebury Common at Stourport-on-Severn; Habberley Valley Nature Reserve; and Kingsford Forest Park.

The industrialisation of the Don Valley begins here at Stocksbridge, a town dominated by steel, chemicals and former coal and clay workings.

Standing on a plateau overlooking the Arun Valley, Amberley is often described as 'the pearl of Sussex' and 'the loveliest village in Sussex'.

Here we are looking north across the valley, along Telford's 70ft-high aqueduct of 1801, which carries the Ellesmere Canal.

Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

The scenic St Ives branch railway follows the coast, with a four-arched viaduct crossing the little valley behind the beach; the station platform is just beyond.

The Chalford Valley, with former woollen cloth mills every few hundred yards along its length, extends through Brimscombe into the distance.

Beulah Methodist chapel had to be removed to make way for the motorway, and was rebuilt in the country park in the Afan Valley.

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning

The road leading to Chipstead Valley is dominated by Edwardian terraced houses on the right.

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.

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

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.

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.

This illustrious town, often called the gateway to Cornwall, crowns the dark hill that rises from the valley of the tiny River Kensey.