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A fence now hides the short castellated turret of the lodge on the road leading away from the castle.

Commanding the broad sweep of Mount's Bay, Penzance grew prosperous both as a stannary town and fishing port. In this street is a statue to Penzance's most famous son, Humphry Davy.

Ipswich, at the head of the Orwell Estuary, has been a major port for centuries. Here, a sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

Originally the word 'port' meant market - so the name reminds us that this was a new market town, laid out in the early 12th century when Henry I granted the settlement a special charter.

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

Poole is still an important port, though more now the haunt of leisure craft than merchant shipping.

On the left is 'The King's Head', its signboard depicting Henry VIII - John Skelton was tutor to the portly King when he was still Prince of Wales.

Situated at the very head of the tidal Helford River, Gweek was an important port for distributing goods to and from Helston and the surrounding district.

For many years Padstow was a bustling sole fishing port. Transatlantic passenger ships berthed here, many built in the town's own boat yards.

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.

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.

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.

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 Ship Inn gives a clue to Greenodd's former importance as a port at the mouth of the River Leven.

Set where the old county of Westmorland reaches down to the sea, this bracing small seaside resort and ship-building port enjoys splendid views of the fells at its back.

This unspoilt walled town on its hilltop site was an important port until Elizabethan times, when the sea abandoned it and its harbour silted up.

By allowing the residents of Port Sunlight and the thousands of visitors who come here a chance to share this art collection, Leverhulme not only created a wonderful memorial to his late wife but also

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

Polruan was once a major shipbuilding port; in the 19th century it launched over 6,000 tons of shipping.