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The main canal ran from Whitby, now Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, to Autherley near Wolverhampton, through 46 sets of locks.

The completion of the Breakwater in 1844 after 32 years' work secured Plymouth's standing as a major port.

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

Hastings emerged as a seaside resort in the early 19th century, and expanded rapidly from its kernel of a fishing port and town.

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

The mound is man-made, and was very likely first topped by a Norman fort.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Lying at the end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

Until around 1900, fishing was still a major industry in Christchurch, though its port never really developed beyond the present simple harbour.

It was from here and Bangor that slate from the Snowdon area was shipped to various European ports.

It was also intended that there should be a canal going from Ellesmere directly to the north to reach the sea at Ellesmere Port.

A new cut was made from Swaffham Lode to Commercial End in the early 19th century for a port owned by Thomas Bowyer.

Fleetwood was a busy cargo port too, and the small building above the beach was for the customs officials, who kept tally on the boats moving in and out of the docks.

A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.

Smuggling was a major industry in the 18th century, with vast quantities of contraband passing through little ports such as Coverack.

Ruswarp, standing at the tidal limit of the River Esk, was at one time as important a port as neighbouring Whitby, and a mill was mentioned here in the Domesday Book.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades earlier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon.

The village was a fairly substantial fishing port throughout the 19th century, and into the 20th century.

However, the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to take another fifty years!

Before the commissioning of the transporter bridge a ferry operated across the Tees to Port Clarence.

Bideford, two miles up-river from Appledore, is now the main commer- cial port in the area.

The dominant tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square was completed in 1922.