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Once an inland port, Botley stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble. Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, lived in Castle Road in 1808, and later at Walmer Castle as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, where he died in 1852.

It was opened in 1889 and became the greatest coal shipping port in South Wales, handling 11 million tons in 1913.

The old 'charas' now graced by the name of coaches brought many day trippers to our old port.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

The short granite cross base with a carved interlace design has inscribed on the other side 'Doniert rogavit pro anima', which translates as 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.

The Holy Well is a short distance away.

This photograph, taken shortly after the war, shows the Moot Hall in a rather sorry state of repair.

The cottages were threatened with destruction shortly after this photograph was taken, but popular opinion prevailed and they were saved.

this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter that King Henry II spent in Ireland), as well as in almost all other western ports

Dartmouth was once one of England's greatest ports, exporting wool and cloth.

It is hard to believe now, but East Budleigh was a port before the river Otter silted up around the sixteenth century. Sir Walter Raleigh was born just outside East Budleigh at Hayes Barton in 1552.

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.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled. Now it is now just an attractive riverside village.

Now used just for pleasure boating, the River Weaver would once have been very busy with boats carrying salt to ports along the Mersey estuary.

Behind the photographer is the very large Broadoak Park, home of the Worsley Golf Club; the short road leading to the clubhouse is called Stableford Avenue.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

The building on the middle left is the Customs House, whose officials would have worked around the clock checking vessels arriving from foreign ports for contraband and diseased passengers or crew

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

The Port Talbot bypass opened in the mid 1960s - for its first 10 years it was the A48(M).

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

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

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