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West Bay assumed the role of port for the nearby town of Bridport, but it only acquired its present name in the 1880s with the arrival of the railway.

Pembrey, like its close neighbour Burry Port, always had an active golfing fraternity.

As with the port of Newlyn, the small harbour at Porthleven uses the registration letters of Penzance.

Two schooners plied a busy trade with London in the middle of the century, but by 1870 competition from the railway had killed off the fledgling port.

The lane from Port Isaac descends the cliffside to its neighbouring harbour, also once important for fishing, and a place where sailing vessels were beached to be loaded with Delabole slates.

The Barbican lines Sutton Harbour, long a fishing quay and the original port of Plymouth.

Until around this time fishing was still a major industry in Christchurch, though its port never really developed beyond the present simple harbour.

This sea-port at the mouth of the Nedd derived its importance from its docks and from its steel and iron works.

Hythe was once the port of the New Forest; a settlement survived here after the Conquest, despite the excesses of William the Conqueror.

With its 29 automated locks, this modern, commercial waterway forms a link with sea-going ships at the port of Goole.

As the china clay industry expanded the port grew in size and significance.

Malpas was a miniature port of great antiquity, but is now the exclusive haunt of yachtsmen and weekend sailors.

Bangor's chief trade was the export of slates, mined from Lord Penrhyn's quarries at Bethesda, and carried by rail to Port Penrhyn.

With its 29 automated locks, this modern, commercial waterway forms a link with sea-going ships at the port of Goole.

Swansea's maritime tradition has always been vital to the town, and the various port extensions drove its economic development.

Darby chose the location with care; supplies of coal, iron ore, and water were readily available, and there was access to the Bristol Channel ports by way of the Severn.

Here we have two views of the spacious harbour, opened in 1832 as the port for Canterbury, seven miles further inland.

There is not a port at Bridport, though there was in former times before its river silted up.

Various types of working cranes add interest to the skyline, evidence of important port activities.

This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports.

The port was invariably busy, also with cargoes of coal and the sweet-smelling barrel-staves which made the casks for transporting the finer qualities of china clay.

It was once a busy little port exporting salt (from which the town takes its name) and wool, but the estuary became silted up in the 15th century.

Stalham was a minor port in the 19th century, as the warehouse buildings in this picture show.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Folkestone had established itself as a thriving cross-Channel port.