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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.

The village was a fairly substantial fishing port throughout the 19th century, and into the 20th century. A variety of fish was landed, including mackerel, cod and haddock.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades earlier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon. At one time, there were almost 300 trawlers employing 1600 seamen.

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.

Built by Charles Rashleigh and designed by the ubiquitous John Smeaton, Charlestown was once one of Cornwall's busiest ports, shipping tin from the Polgooth Mine which in 1790 was the biggest in Cornwall

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

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

The dominant tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square was completed in 1922. The architect was Sir Edwin Cooper, who looked back to the pre-Great War Edwardian era.

The passenger ferry from the Essex port of Tilbury approaches the Town Pier at the end of its journey across the Thames.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Yarmouth has become an important entry port to the Isle of Wight due to ease of access from the mainland.

The inner stone jetties of this thriving port provide sheltered moorings for a large fleet of fishing vessels.

Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

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

This medieval port stands at the head of the Camel estuary. Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.

Until the 19th century Kingsbridge was an important port for the shipping of wool and foundry products.

The vessel was not a regu- lar visitor to the port and could have been here on charter.

It was a significant port, too, handling corn, coal, chalk and hay. The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat.

It is virtually impossible to believe that this landlocked village with its many beautiful old cottages was also once a port.

In the mid-19th century, Exmouth gained importance as a shipbuilding centre and fishing port - tons of herring were landed each month.

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

This photograph shows a de-rigged Manx nobby at Port St Mary.

As the Rother, navigable to Bodiam Bridge, was part of the port of Winchelsea, a licence was granted to Sir Edward Dalyngrigge 'to make a castle thereof in defence of the adjacent country against the King's