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The valleys' canal systems developed throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and led to the development of Newport as a port.

Standing on a 300 ft limestone crag overlooking the Towy Valley, the present Carreg Cennen dates from the late 13th century, though the site has historical links with the ancient commote of Is-Cennen,

The church itself has a Norman south aisle and sits in a delightful churchyard with the backs of timber-framed cottages on one side and the Misbourne in its valley on the other.

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

Byworth is a very pretty village with a single winding street a mile east of Petworth; it is set on hilly ground above a small stream flowing in a steep valley towards the Rother.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

This village is noted for its beautiful woods, a railway tunnel under the Balcombe Forest and a brick viaduct over the Ouse valley. The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

This is another exceptional little town, set in its own south-facing timbered valley just east of the escarpment between Stroud and Gloucester. It is a place that makes grey look very good.

We are in the Ouse valley just north of Newhaven. St John's church is on high ground overlooking the tidal river. It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a shingled octagonal spire.

Behind the spot where the photographer must have stood is Windrush Valley School, founded in 1951, and the low building on the extreme right of the picture, next to the three-gabled house

A hundred years after this photograph was taken, there appears to have been little change to the overall shape of the town, for Ilkley today retains the charm of the Wharfe Valley and the splendour of

Built to carry the Taff Vale Extension railway across the Ebbw and Kendon valleys to join the Taff Vale and Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford railways together, the 200 foot-high Crumlin viaduct

a new planning row broke out over plans by Richmond College, the local tertiary college (which is actually in Twickenham) to fund expansion plans by selling off part of their site in Crane Valley

view illustrate very graphically why Gisborians have always considered themselves country dwellers: the town is immediately surrounded by fields and hills, nestling in a picturesque valley

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Many superb buildings complement the townscape, and this 1950s view looking west just before the major descent to the river valley captures some of this quality.

The Druids' Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

The Severn Valley Railway, championed by Sir Gerald Nabarro MP, once had a second line, which continued to Tenbury Wells through the Forest.

Valley Gardens was a favourite place for a mild constitutional after taking the waters.

The Druids’ Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

As the town grew, Digbeth stretched from the High Street down to a small open stream running through the valley bottom.

Immortalised by Laurie Lee in his autobiography 'Cider With Rosie', Slad and its wooded valley is known throughout the world by millions of readers who have never been there.

We are in the Cuckmere Valley, with fine views of the scarp side of the Downs.

St Margaret's church and the village lie in the Lune Valley, 9 miles from Lancaster.