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A motte and bailey castle, one of the earliest in England, was erected here soon after the Norman Conquest, for at that time Norwich was an important town and a major port.

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

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

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

By the time this picture was taken, Port Erin had been transformed from a fishing village into a popular resort.

Repton's famous public school was founded by Sir John Port of Etwall in 1556, but it was under the leadership of Dr Pears between 1854-74 that its fame and reputation really took off.

Treffry used the harbour for shipping tin and copper, but china clay soon took over; since 1946 it has been run by English China Clays, and is now the busiest port per foot of quay in the UK.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

Topsham, a delightful little port situated where the Exe estuary narrows, long had trading links with Holland, with the export of cloth and wool and the import of sailcloth and linen.

A once prosperous port had long been reduced to the hiring out of canoes and rowing boats.

It is remarkable that until the Eastern Avenue arterial road was built in the 1920s, the main trunk road from London to the port of Harwich and East Anglia passed through the narrow confines

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

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.