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Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

At the time of the Conquest, Norwich was both an important town and a major port. Control was quickly established with the erection of one of the earliest motte and bailey castles in England.

This waterway was one of the last to be dug, and had a short commercial life because of successful poaching of its business by the railways.

Among the monuments on the north side of the chancel is a Purbeck marble tomb with canopy and three hanging arches on twisted columns marked by an 18in brass on the short tomb chest.

This waterway was one of the last to be dug, and had a short commercial life because of successful poaching of its business by the railways.

When the Duke of Gordon held the castle for James VII during the 'Long Siege' of 1689, there would have been few, if any, buildings between the fortress and the port of Leith.

The projecting sign (right of centre) is for the Port Bredy Guest House. Opposite, under the Esso sign (left), Bridport Motor Company Ltd held dealerships for Morris, Daimler, Wolseley and Lanchester.

The river has long been used for boats trading upstream and, more importantly, downstream, where the Stour links up with the River Severn and thus with the ports of Gloucester and Bristol.

It is strange to think that this quiet place was once an important centre for shipping—it even tried to compete with Holyhead as the Irish mail-packet port.

The Commercial Hotel provides an interesting backdrop to part of this port's fishing fleet, lying easily at their moorings.

King's Lynn flourished into one of richest ports in the land in medieval times. Cargoes of wool, cloth from Flanders, and timber from the Baltic crossed into England here.

A port at the mouth of the Arun, and once a Tudor royal shipyard, the old town runs east from the river bank.

Though the castle was enlarged by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, its career as a fortress was short.

Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime

The perfect little port with its floating dock is surrounded by cottages, and the outer harbour is enclosed by breakwater piers.

This substantial civic building was the gift of a local J P, and befits a leading Irish port serving the daily Royal Mail run to Stranraer.

Conservation area legislation should be modelled to regulate this continuous erosion of character, but regrettably it has little power in its everyday form to prevent anything short of demolition.

Shortly after this photograph was taken, the Ware Hardware Stores closed, and the building became tearooms catering for visitors to the town.

This photograph of the west front was taken shortly after completion of the Temple Moore restoration, as we can see from the light-coloured stonework around the window, buttresses and parapets

A short distance downstream is an iron footbridge, built as a memorial to members of the Ramblers Association who lost their lives in the two World Wars.

There was once a thriving linen trade here, and the bolts of cloth were shipped out through the tiny port of Boroughbridge.

Further out, across the bay, is the ferry terminal, where huge vessels ply between the port of Fishguard and Rosslare in Ireland.

Until the mid 1800s it was also a port under the control of Lancaster, exporting gunpowder, copper ore, limestone burnt in local kilns, and other goods. Small ships were also built here.

This small but busy inland port was heavily used by the local mining and quarrying industries.