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The River Piddle winds beneath the chalk downlands of Dorset, giving its name to several villages along the way before reaching the sea at Poole Harbour.

The town of Poole grew up around the older quays of the great harbour; during these times it was purely functional, catering for mercantile activities, shipping and pottery manufactured from the

Centuries ago, an arm of the sea came up to Wareham from what is now Poole Harbour.

The nearness of Barry Station and the view from the balconies over the Old Harbour were the main selling points for prospective purchasers.

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

The older anchorages of Sutton Harbour and Stonehouse, with the greater expanse of the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound beyond, created a perfect naval base long before the new town of Devonport was founded.

Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.

It is difficult to believe that less than twenty years later, the harbour was the scene of nationalist gun-running.

Boats can still operate in and out of this harbour when weather conditions close those that face the prevailing south-westerlies.

Fowey, the 'Troy Town' popularised by the Victorian writer Quiller Couch, is blessed with a spacious natural harbour, and was once one of the foremost seaports of Britain.

This is the inner pool of the Cobb Harbour; we are looking north-westwards to High Cliff, prominent on the wooded hilltop (left).

number of maritime business premises to Military Road, which has been widened considerably; and this post-war photograph also shows a number of ex- Naval converted motor boats moored in the harbour

The large building on the right is the Harbour of Refuge - a splendid name for a seaside public house!

The estuary provides a sheltered natural harbour, and in the past schooners such as the one here were a common sight.

Its natural harbour, sheltered by the limestone cliffs, made it ideal for settlement.

Iron Age dwellers built a fortification on Berry Head, and Celtic inhabitants would have collected salt and fish where the harbour now stands.

St John's Church, situated dramatically above Torquay harbour, was built in limestone excavated from its own site by G E Street in 1861.

After the harbour had become unusable, a number of warehouses and granaries were redeveloped.

This unusual view shows the Mount's estate houses and a harbour wall, with Marazion stretched out along the coast and Trencrom Hill rising behind on the extreme left.

Swords and armour bedeck the walls.