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Built by Charles Rashleigh and designed by the ubiquitous John Smeaton, Charlestown was once one of Cornwall's busiest ports, shipping tin from the Polgooth Mine which in 1790 was the biggest in Cornwall

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

This photograph shows a de-rigged Manx nobby at Port St Mary.

At this tiny port, a few miles from Camborne, copper ore was shipped for smelting at Swansea.

It was a prison until the 19th century and now houses the Cinque Ports Museum.

The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Folkestone is now known as a cross-channel port which developed in early Victorian days, and a steeply-graded branch railway line was built from the main line to the harbour.

They also founded the port of Romney.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

Cawood, on the Yorkshire Ouse close to its confluence with the Wharfe, was formerly an important inland port.

Gorleston developed as a fishing port and rival to Yarmouth across the estuary of the river Yare.

Like Yarmouth, Lowestoft is a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort; holiday-makers came here as the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

Queenborough gained its name in 1366, when Edward III gave the borough and port to his Queen Philippa.

The loosely-coiled mooring ropes, the lobster pots, the Admiralty-style boat anchor and the nets provide clear evidence of a thriving fishing port, although the jetty was used also at this

At one time vessels could thread their way right up to the town quay, and Lostwithiel grew to be second only to Southampton as a port along the southern seabord.

This celebrated port prospered as a result of its natural deep-water anchorage.

Whilst some parts of the Norfolk coast have suffered badly from erosion over the years, Cley next the Sea has suffered from precisely the opposite.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades ear- lier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon.

To the right of the bend in the road there is a drop down to what was the Commercial Hotel, sited near what was the port in times past.

As the village gradually declined as the port silted up, so its large and impressive church was reduced in size.

The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.