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From the 1880s to the mid-1930s, Sharpness was the third largest port in the UK for the importing of timber, including pine and spruce from Canada and the Baltic and teak from Burma.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

Following the Norman invasion of 1066, Southampton became a key port, and the walls and other buildings are a permanent reminder of Southampton's wealth and prosperity in those days.

In 1900 it was decided that the cargo handling and berthing facilities at Avonmouth needed upgrading so that the larger steamers then being built could use the port.

The town is now greatly expanded inland, but the core of this ancient port is still recognisable around the two piers and the Georgian parish church.

In 1922 it was taken over by the Great Western Railway whose acquisition of every South Wales port instantly made them the world's largest dock owner.

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage. The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station.

At one time vessels could thread their way right up to the town quay, and Lostwithiel grew to be second only to Southampton as a port along the southern seabord.

Whilst some parts of the Norfolk coast have suffered badly from erosion over the years, Cley next the Sea has suffered from precisely the opposite.

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

To the right of the bend in the road there is a drop down to what was the Commercial Hotel, sited near what was the port in times past.

As the village gradually declined as the port silted up, so its large and impressive church was reduced in size. Only the tower survives intact, and the brick nave was built inside the ruin in 1672.

the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to enjoy a new lease of life as an inland port

The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to enjoy a new lease of life as an inland port.

It was to Port St Mary that the Scottish granite to be used in the construction of Chicken Rock Lighthouse was brought, and where each stone was cut and dressed to size before being taken out to the site

Again, there is no doubt why this picturesque working fishing port became a popular destination for visitors.

Thorne was an important inland port linking the South Yorkshire coalfield and the River Don with the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Humber via the Stainforth and Keadby Canal.

In 1886 Mevagissey landed 255,000 hundredweight of fish, the greatest quantity of any port in the west. The twin harbours offered vessels safe protection from storms.

The numerous fishing and work boats, which lie in an orderly way upon the mudflats awaiting the next high water, belie the fact that just a few years earlier, Newquay was a major port involved in handling

When local landowner Colonel Tomline promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, he hoped to be able to compete with the port of Harwich, across the Orwell Estuary.

The port had kept abreast of technology: massive cranes on tracks have appeared, which could lift an entire coal wagon and dump it into the ship's hold.

In the late Victorian era Newquay enjoyed brief success as a port exporting china clay. Schooners were loaded directly from the railway link to the docks, built in 1874.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled. Now it is now just an attractive riverside village.

this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter that King Henry II spent in Ireland), as well as in almost all other western ports