The landscape is principally granite moorland in the west, and chalk and limestone downland and clay vales in the east.
The third was those of high literary vales and were therefore valued by critics.
Vale's excellent mid-season form also raised hopes of a promotion campaign, but they faded away at the final stages.
Between the chalk hills are large, wide vales and wide flood plains.
Vale's average home attendance of 3,581 was the third-highest in the division.
Villages situated on exposed uplands or upon clay vales where the soil became waterlogged bore the brunt of the changes.
I saw the hills and vales which had once had a teeming population, where all kinds of wealth had been pro- duced, but the people had gone.
When we talk about the vales and valleys we become eloquent and are charged with being sentimental.
