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On a creek on the north shore of the Helford, Port Navas was once the shipping place for granite from the quarries around Constantine.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

It was local landowner Colonel Tomline who promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, in the hope of being able to compete with the port of Harwich across the Orwell Estuary.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

Winchelsea is an 'ancient' town, like Rye, equal in status to the Cinque Ports and having to provide a quota of ships for the English fleet.

They were constructed in the second half of the 19th century to enhance the naval port that had developed over the previous centuries.

To eat ginger-bread correctly it should be cut into slices and dunked in a glass of port.

It is the only river mouth in Sussex on which no port has been built.

They were loaded and unloaded either on foot or by horse and cart - a horse can be seen waiting at the port side of the vessel.

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

The inner stone jetties of this thriving port provide sheltered moorings for a large fleet of fishing vessels.

Yarmouth has become an important entry port to the Isle of Wight due to ease of access from the mainland.

Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

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

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

It helped make Brixham the greatest fishing port in the land in the 19th century.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The River Adur ports had a chequered history.

During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

Most visitors to the town today are on their way to a place close by that has a great deal of character – the purpose-built town of Port Sunlight with its 'sylvan suburbs' around the nearby soap

The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship

A fishing boat is returning to port from Lyme Bay at high tide, manoeuvering along the ship channel between its double piers into the basin (top right).

Famous for its boatyards, which still produce yachts and ships, Brightlingsea is a 'limb' of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, and the Deputy swears allegiance to the mayor of Sandwich.