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Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.

The tower derives its name from the time when Chester was a thriving port and ships used to moor alongside it.

Lymington has always been important as a port; it has not always been the small anchorage that visitors see today.

It was still an important port, with several hundred vessels coming up river every year to discharge and take on cargo.

There were once regular sailings to Glasgow and Greenock, but its days as a cross-channel port are now over.

It was traditionally much more important than its 'little suburb by the sea', and was included in the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports.

A long way from his home port of Glasgow, the 'Tarantia's captain is escorted by a tugboat pilot more familiar with the difficult sections of the canal.

Lymington, standing proudly above the short estuary of the Lymington or Boldre River, is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Lentune, though a settlement existed here long before that.

Yealmpton, always pronounced Yampton, stands on the River Yealm near to the end of its short journey from Dartmoor to the sea.

On its no-through road in a short valley leading to the Cuckmere River, it feels amazingly isolated amid the Friston Forest.

A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.

If this picture is correctly dated it must have been taken very shortly before opening, possibly in December.

Oversley Green is just a short walk from Alcester, beside the River Arrow, near its confluence with the River Alne. This is the Arrow, and the old stone bridge over the river is just visible.

The short-lived Aberystwyth and Tregaron bank was established in 1810, and the Black Ox bank (Banc y Eidon Du), based in Llandovery, opened a branch in Tregaron in 1903.

One stop short of the terminus at Cockfosters, Oakwood Station is one of the jewels along this northern stretch of the Piccadilly line, which also includes Southgate, Arnos Grove and Cockfosters.

Standing at the foot of Pendle Hill, which is 1835ft high and just short of being a mountain, the stone-built Pendle Inn is in the centre of Barley, the heart of Pendle Witch country.

It was built in 1849 a short distance from Penistone station. In 1916, disaster struck: the second and third arches collapsed, causing a tank engine to crash down into the debris.

A sleepy village now, in medieval times Blakeney was one of the top ten ports in England.

Cley (rhymes with sky), once a busy port, is now a sleepy village, where nothing much has changed since this photograph was taken.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the mile-long Ulverston Canal, England's shortest.

Poole continues to function as a port, though as much now for leisure craft as merchant shipping.

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved during Victoria's reign, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

For centuries it thrived as a fishing port, but it lost out with the rise of nearby Newlyn in the 19th century.

The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.