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However, they lacked the power of screw tugs, and were heavy on operating costs outside the coal handling ports where fuel was relatively inexpensive.

At the far end of the building is the Court Leet Lock-Up, and a notice reminds the visitor that Coleridge apparently used Watchet as the port where his Ancient Mariner 'stoppeth one of three'.

Originally the first of the Cinque Ports, its Saxon harbour had silted up by the late 14th century, ending its role as the chief place of embarkation for the Continent and as England's premier naval

There was once a thriving linen trade here, and the bolts of cloth were shipped out through the tiny port of Boroughbridge.

This view shows the higher part of the town.

The road through Greenodd is part of the 1820 turnpike route from Lancaster to Kirkby Ireleth, so in the coaching era Greenodd was a very busy place.

This small but busy inland port was heavily used by the local mining and quarrying industries.

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

Once a port described by Daniel Defoe as 'fairer, and much deeper, than those at Watchet and Porlock', it turned into a major seaside bathing resort in the later 19th century.

It had long been an old seafaring port, and it burgeoned into a sizeable town in the 19th century.

Fleetwood became England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival those of Hull and Grimsby.

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

It was in the 17th century that Greenock developed as a port, providing a packet service to and from Ireland.

From the mid-19th century, Par harbour was a major port for the export of china clay.

'Scotch Week' saw passenger numbers double, and Yorkshire Wakes Weeks kept the port busy.

Once a significant inland port, it has some fine houses and a Guildhall of 1733.

Large mansions were built here for the wealthy merchants from the prosperous port of Hull.

Perhaps the most unusual ships to ply the 16 miles from the Severn Estuary to Britain's most inland port were two Royal Navy submarines that arrived in Gloucester as part of a recruitment drive

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

Nearby Hinderwell was a centre for ironstone mining; the ore was shipped to the furnaces at Jarrow via tiny Port Mulgrave.

Summer day trips reached beaches, piers and ports from Torquay to Bournemouth.

This ancient port lost much of its importance when the Exeter ship canal was cut in the mid 16th century, causing shipping to bypass its wharves.

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.