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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.

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

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

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

The mound is man-made, and was very likely first topped by a Norman fort.

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

Hastings emerged as a seaside resort in the early 19th century, and expanded rapidly from its kernel of a fishing port and town.

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

Fleetwood was a busy cargo port too, and the small building above the beach was for the customs officials, who kept tally on the boats moving in and out of the docks.

A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.

Smuggling was a major industry in the 18th century, with vast quantities of contraband passing through little ports such as Coverack.

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

Until around 1900, fishing was still a major industry in Christchurch, though its port never really developed beyond the present simple harbour.

It was also intended that there should be a canal going from Ellesmere directly to the north to reach the sea at Ellesmere Port.

It was from here and Bangor that slate from the Snowdon area was shipped to various European ports.

Lying at the end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so

Ruswarp, standing at the tidal limit of the River Esk, was at one time as important a port as neighbouring Whitby, and a mill was mentioned here in the Domesday Book.

A new cut was made from Swaffham Lode to Commercial End in the early 19th century for a port owned by Thomas Bowyer.

The completion of the Breakwater in 1844 after 32 years' work secured Plymouth's standing as a major port.

The Reach established Bristol as a major port.

The loch itself was served by the steamers of the Loch Lomond Steam Boat Company, whose first ship, the 'Prince of Wales', was built at Port Glasgow in 1858.

This was one of the most important mining ports in the 19th century; the harbour was often packed with sailing vessels bringing coal from South Wales and returning with copper ores.