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Another view showing Cat Nab, with Saltburn's Marine Parade standing high on the opposite side of the valley.

More than 100 people in the valley also had to move to make way for the dams. Three manor houses, eighteen farms, a school and a church were demolished.

The pretty village of Elham, at the heart of the valley of that name, is clustered around its market square and this High Street, lined with buildings from several periods.

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

We are in a valley of the Downs near Beachy Head. Here we see a workplace with an open-air view; the craftsmen are taking a breather.

The locks at Fleckney are a part of the descent of the canal from its high point at Foxton into the Soar Valley.

This photograph shows the wooded valley at Capel Curig. In the Victorian era it was very popular with anglers, and there were coaches carrying visitors from Betws-y-Coed to Bangor and Llanberis.

The village sits in its valley partly in the parish of Tal-y-llyn and partly in Llanfihangel.

This delightful group of contrasting buildings clusters along the river valley, with the church on higher ground to the north. The Eight Bells (left) closed in the 1980s and is now Peal House.

Lying in the valley of the Severn, the town does not seem particularly Welsh. Its original name was 'Pool', with the 'Welsh' prefix added to distinguish it from Poole in Dorset.

There are fine views from the building over the Trent and Witham valley.

Moving south to the Cuckmere River valley, our tour reaches Upper Dicker, about two and a half miles west of Hailsham.

This thatched cottage with its little garden stood in Pondhu Road, in the valley bottom to the south west of the town centre.

As it climbs the area known as Golden Valley, the scenery is magnificent. This is the Bell Lock near Chalford: the lock around the corner is known (unsurprisingly) as the Red Lion.

Strangely, no Edwardian Barumites (the local name for Barnstaple residents) are enjoying a summer walk along Taw Valley Parade. Note the weather recording station in the white box on the left.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

The train facing the camera is waiting to depart for the Luxulyan valley and Newquay.

Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout.'

Polperro's narrow valley is particularly prone to flash floods; in the drought summer of 1976 a sudden downpour changed the stream into a raging torrent which threw cars around like corks and deposited

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley. Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

The narrow hedge-lined lane with unspoiled views over the Brighton Road valley remained until the late 1920s when the lane was widened and houses rapidly appeared.

Clarach consists of dispersed settlements in a fertile valley to the north of Aberystwyth, from which it is accessible by foot over Constitution Hill.

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.

Prinknash (pronounced Prinnage) Abbey is for the most part a very modern building, rising stark from the valley.