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

Rye became a member of the Cinque Ports confederation in 1191, at first as a 'limb' of Hastings. In 1336, it was styled an 'Ancient Town'.

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.

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

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

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

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

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.

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.

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.

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

It helped make Brixham the greatest fishing port in the land in the 19th century. In the foreground is a mast ready for stepping.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The River Adur ports had a chequered history.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

At the turn of the century the lucrative tents were a closed shop run by number of families: the Dentons (Harry Denton was the bathing machine proprietor and port sanitary inspector), the

Famous for its boatyards, which still produce yachts and ships, Brightlingsea is a 'limb' of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, and the Deputy swears allegiance to the mayor of Sandwich.

The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship

A fishing boat is returning to port from Lyme Bay at high tide, manoeuvering along the ship channel between its double piers into the basin (top right).

Brimscombe Port is in the distance.

This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

Most visitors to the town today are on their way to a place close by that has a great deal of character – the purpose-built town of Port Sunlight with its 'sylvan suburbs' around the nearby soap

During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.