Through the Valley is a novel by Robert Henriques, published in 1950, about the decline of an English country house, Neapcaster Park, before and after World War II.

The book follows the growing up of three boys: Geoff, son of the estate manager Richard Greenley who grows up in the lodge and goes out hunting with the estate family; Ralph, son of General Harry Meredith, the owner of the estate; and David son of Daniel Levine, an intelligent but physically clumsy Jew.

In the first scene, set around a major hunt, Miss May one of the servants at the park, is seduced by Frank the footman.

Frank becomes a taxi driver, and his gradual rise in the world mirrors the decline of the estate.

That same night the three boys go clambering over the roof of Neapcaster Park.