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The road leading out of this village, climbing the north-east flank of the head of the valley, was built in 1930-32 by unemployed miners. Note the two boys on the left of the picture.

There could not be anywhere more northern-sounding than Mytholmroyd, the woollen village crammed into the bottom of the Calder Valley west of Halifax.

Chorleywood is on the south side of the Chess valley. Chorleywood Common survived an attempt at enclosure and we see it here in its late 19th-century gorse-covered state.

At the southern limits of the county, close by Diss, this delightful village of knapped flint cottages sits in wooded countryside in the valley of the Little Ouse.

Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.

This village is in the Ouse valley just north of the town of Newhaven. St John's church is on high ground overlooking the tidal river.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

As nearby Sheffield expanded, so did towns like Oughtibridge in the Don Valley. The river powered mills, but later manufacturing became the mainstay.

Brennand Valley is just one of many beauty spots threading the fells near Dunsop Bridge.

It was built by Sir Samuel Marling, whose woollen cloth mill is visible in the valley beyond. The monument to the left of the church came from the 1851 Great Exhibition.

High Salvington, a hamlet on the downs, is now swallowed up, as is the Findon Valley below to the east; in effect it is a suburb cut off by the teeming A27.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.

This is one of the most photogenic and scenic of valleys in Wales, but it is never crowded. The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.

Wesley Street (right) is a reminder of the great Methodist preacher who encouraged the many chapels in the Ribble and Calder valleys.

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

Built in 1154 by Henry de Essex on the edge of a valley, this lofty castle became the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury.

Ruswarp station is the first stop on the Whitby to Middlesbrough railway line – mercifully ignored by Beeching, much to the benefit of the many isolated villages lying in the Esk valley

Standing above the valley of the River Wolf, the Church of St Nicholas is first recorded in 1288 when a Parochial Quota of £13 was paid to the Deanery of Tavistock.

Navenby is a small market town with wide, airy views over the Trent valley to the west. There is a fine church, noted for its Decorated Gothic chancel, and a broad main street, once the market place.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.The Dicker, behind the brick wall and trees beyond the pub, is a rather odd-looking mansion, built by Horatio William

Caversham, Bridge Street 1908 59962 The Thames Valley Hotel on the left was built in 1891 and is now flats, while the Crown Hotel on the right was rebuilt when the present bridge was constructed.

Corris, which gave its name to the Welsh narrow-gauge railway line, is a slate-quarrying village in the valley of the Afon Dulas.

Climbing up from Dulverton the road crosses typical sheep-grazed Exmoor moorland, bright with yellow gorse flowers and heather, before descending into Winsford in the upper Exe valley.

This photograph, showing the pond, looks over what was known as the Valley. Both Avenham and Miller Park were started around 1864.