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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.

Polruan was once a major shipbuilding port; in the 19th century it launched over 6,000 tons of shipping.

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

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.

Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

Moreover it would be a perfect port of call for pleasure cruisers working the Channel.

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy.

This seems to have quickly developed into a tradition with Lowestoft skippers so that they could set sail immediately upon leaving a port.

Ship building and repairing gave work to many, and Swansea came sixth in the list of British ship-owning ports.

In medieval times the town boasted a castle, a port and a church, which were overwhelmed by the sands in the early 16th century.

Dense smoke from a distant inward-bound steamer is caught by strong winds and blown across the horizon towards the dockside shipping in this busy commercial port.

The busy port is seen from almost from the same viewpoint as No 79886, above, but looking to the right.

Bridgwater was an important port, with railway docks and the terminus of the Taunton and Bridgwater Canal.

It is thought that the name derives from the Welsh `porth coed`, or `the harbour below the wood`, and indeed it may well have been the port for the nearby Roman town of Caerwent.

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

Called New Mill in 1840, it featured as a landmark on Captain Henry Mangles Denham's 'Instructions for approaching the new town and port of Fleetwood'.

As a port, Looe declined with the coming of the railways, though it continued to maintain a fishing fleet; there were also exports of granite from local quarries, which was used for harbours, breakwaters

Set on the south coast of the Lleyn peninsula, at the mouth of the Penrhos river, it was once a thriving commercial port; but the sea threw a sandbank across the mouth of the Afon Erch, causing the maritime

The perfect little port with its floating dock is surrounded by cottages, and the outer harbour is enclosed by breakwater piers.