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Here we see the 'Finland' in Number 6 Dry Dock.The vessel was not a regular visitor to the port, and could have been here on charter.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

Penny Bridge over the River Crake was a creek port under the control of Lancaster; there was a quay by the bridge.

Following the Norman invasion of 1066, Southampton became a key port, and the walls and other buildings are a permanent reminder of Southampton's wealth and prosperity in those days.

The vessel was not a regular visitor to the port, and could have been here on charter.

It was the arrival of the railway that sounded the death knell for the old port of Haverfordwest.

By the time of this photograph tourism is taking over from the traditional port activities of fishing and trading, and there are one or two pleasure motor boats moored in the harbour.

This photograph was taken in pre-breakwater days; Goodwick is now the port from which the Irish ferry service operates.

In this they were aided by Port Isaac's maze of narrow streets, or 'drangs', in which they could run the excise men ragged, communicating by a series of coded knocks on the walls of adjoining houses.

A steamer rides at anchor awaiting a tug to take her into Hull, while another is just about to enter the port complex.

What makes the Wet Dock so useful is that it is a non-tidal section of the port.

Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road.

A sleepy village now, in medieval times Blakeney was one of the top ten ports in England.

Cley (rhymes with sky), once a busy port, is now a sleepy village, where nothing much has changed since this photograph was taken.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the mile-long Ulverston Canal, England's shortest.

Poole continues to function as a port, though as much now for leisure craft as merchant shipping.

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved during Victoria's reign, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

For centuries it thrived as a fishing port, but it lost out with the rise of nearby Newlyn in the 19th century.

Paddle steamers provided pleasure trips and a bus service of sorts out to the coastal ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.

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.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled.