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With its 29 automated locks, this modern, commercial waterway forms a link with sea-going ships at the port of Goole.

Swansea's maritime tradition has always been vital to the town, and the various port extensions drove its economic development.

Darby chose the location with care; supplies of coal, iron ore, and water were readily available, and there was access to the Bristol Channel ports by way of the Severn.

Here we have two views of the spacious harbour, opened in 1832 as the port for Canterbury, seven miles further inland.

There is not a port at Bridport, though there was in former times before its river silted up. Now the little harbour at neighbouring West Bay fulfils the function, though on an unambitious scale.

Various types of working cranes add interest to the skyline, evidence of important port activities. The Dock Master's Office stands on the left, with its clock tower.

The buildings to the left are the river side of Quay Street and served as port facilities for the town. Quay Street was also once known as 'Schippistrete', a very descriptive title.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Apart from leisure traffic, Exmouth's dockland area was used for the landing and despatch of cargoes, particularly after 1865 when Exmouth became a port in its own right.

Today, both station and lines await decisions related to the port's future.

Lying at the estuary of the River Helford, this small port was important in days gone by, for it supported the tin mining industry.

This photograph reveals the 1860 iron structure, and the business and bustle of a working port.

This linked the Mersey ports with industrial centres in the heart of England. Today the Boat Museum in the dock area reminds us of the way of life of those early boatmen and their families.

Here we see the quay during the last years of Wells as a trading port. Large boats such as the 'Luctor' (centre right) were once familiar sights here.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Heysham was a popular port with Yorkshire people, who found it easier to get to than Liverpool, Fleetwood and Holyhead, even further away.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

A market town since the 13th century, Ulverston became a busy port during the 18th and 19th centuries, exporting slate via the country's shortest canal.

By the1750s, Lancaster had become the fourth busiest port in the country, but the increasing tonnage of ships and the shallowness of the Lune threatened its downfall.

It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.

There are many children who have presumably been drawn to the permanent excitement of a busy port.

To the right is Church House, which shortly before this view was taken had ceased to be a farmhouse; the flint walls in front are remnants of its barns, retained as boundary walls.

For all its evocative name, Higher Bebington Road is quite short in length; it services Bebington High Sports College, the Higher Bebington recreation ground and the local branch of Wirral

Of the two previous castles on the site, the first was a short-lived motte and bailey erected when the Normans pushed into the Cardiff area.