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The Frome Valley, dotted with mills 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.

The village of Ticehurst is situated on a gentle slope surrounded by fertile valleys and hills, where hops were once extensively grown.

Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

Whilst this 1955ft-high mountain can be climbed from Abergavenny, many of the paths that lead from its summit descend to scattered villages in remote valleys like the Grwyne Fawr and Grwyne Fechan.

The one facing the camera is about to depart for Newquay, crossing the bridge onto the single track to climb up through the Luxulyan valley.

The village stretches along the valley of the River Umber, and is reputed to have the longest main street of any village in the country - nearly two miles.

The village stretches along the valley of the River Umber, and is reputed to have the longest main street of any village in the country - nearly two miles.

Old-style forage harvesting is going on in a pastoral view of Chideock and its valley.

Taken on the old Caversham bridge, this view looks into Caversham's Bridge Street with on the left the double gabled Taylor's Hotel of 1891; by 1908 it had been renamed the Thames Valley Hotel.

Set on a hill above the valley of the Nene, Stanwick lies on the A605. The road sign can be seen pointing to Higham Ferrers.

Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years. It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.

Castle Road (part of the A345 to Amesbury) is on the right, and the Avon Valley is just out of the picture to the left.

Motorists heading out of Cornwall from Callington must descend a steep hill through the old mining village of Gunnislake, which is situated in the Tamar valley close to the Devon border.

The caves at Cefn are amongst a number in the Elwy Valley; they were already famous in the 1530s, when John Leland mentioned them in his famous Itinerary of 1536-39.

Continuing south-west, the route reaches North Curry, a village on the low ridge that separates West Sedge Moor from the Tone valley.

A66, the King's Arms with its stables and courtyard to the rear was once a coaching- house serving travellers on the Penrith to Darlington turnpike, a route linking the Lakes, the Eden Valley

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.

It is one of four dams in the Elan Valley which supply water to Birmingham.

Sheep could be rested and watered in the valley before resuming the drove to Weyhill Fair.

The village of Slad sits in one of the loveliest valleys in Gloucestershire.

This is prime sheep-farming country, with wide open fields on either side of the river valley. When Charles Kingsley stayed at Bridge End, the area inspired him to write his novel The Water Babies.

The village takes its name from the river that flows through the valley and from the earls of the de Vere family. This photograph is typical of the type of rural scene to be found in Essex.

Packing the hillside of Happy Valley above Llandudno, holidaymakers and residents alike enjoyed the views of the activity below them beside the recently constructed Victoria Pier.