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Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

The main port lay north of this point, since a medieval three- arched stone bridge blocked the further passage of tall craft upstream along the River Parrett; even in the early 20th century,

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

When it opened in 1860, it was 1,200 yards long and had a landing stage where steamers from the Isle of Man, North Wales, and several west-coast ports made scheduled stops during the season.

A motte and bailey castle, one of the earliest in England, was erected here soon after the Norman Conquest, for at that time Norwich was an important town and a major port. A

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

Until the 13th century, Huntingdon was a port on the River Great Ouse.

West Stockwith was already a river port, and the Chesterfield Canal greatly boosted the village's trade when the canal and its basin were opened in 1777.

In 1870 the port handled 105,000 tons, and by 1900 it was dealing with over 170,000 tons a year.

This celebrated east coast resort has been a flourishing fishing port since the Conqueror's times.

Once this lock on the Aire and Calder Navigation opened at 10am on 20 July 1826, trade boomed between the North Sea port of Hull and the West Yorkshire industrial heartland.

Then it flows through the South Downs to reach the English Channel at Cuckmere Haven, where there is no port or settlement, unlike at Sussex's other river mouths such as the Arun, the Adur

The Reach established Bristol as the mahor port on the west coast.

Here in the 1950s ships still pass on their way to and from the Port of London; this view is from the William Corey Promenade, as it is now called, close to the High Street.

The loch itself was served by the steamers of the Loch Lomond Steam Boat Company, whose first ship, the 'Prince of Wales', was built at Port Glasgow in 1858.

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

At the time of the Conquest, Norwich was both an important town and a major port. Control was quickly established with the erection of one of the earliest motte and bailey castles in England.

These parishes were wealthy ports in the medieval period when the churches were built, but then suffered decline when their harbours silted up or trade decreased.