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

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary.

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

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.

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 town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

He certainly visited the town, though it has to be said that several other ports claim the honour of possessing the sand bar in question.

This town was once a shipbuilding centre and the chief port of Merioneth, with a large trade in flannel and knitted stockings.

The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

Rye became a member of the Cinque Ports confederation in 1191, at first as a 'limb' of Hastings.

The post office is the black and white half-timbered building on the left.

Pwllheli was once the most important port on this coast, but in the 19th century it was eclipsed by the new harbour at Porthmadog.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

As a D- Day embarkation port, Weymouth had been in the front line throughout the war.

The church was built in the 13th century and enlarged by wealthy Glaven port traders in the 14th century; the features, details and monuments inside are truly outstanding, even among the great wealth

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

cast off from the jetty; beyond, this busy reach of the River Thames is crowded with an assortment of vessels preparing either to take on river pilots for the twenty-six mile journey upstream to the Port

In 1771 six women arrived in Ilfracombe 'for the benefit of the air, salt water and to spend part of the summer season', and the herring port was on its way to becoming the tourist town it is today; the

This was the last flourish of Salcombe as a commercial port - by 1950 the pleasure craft had taken over.