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The many dinghies and yachts demonstrate Exmouth's importance as a boating resort.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

The peaceful sea could be deceptive: a memorial in the church relates to nine local people who went boating one Sunday in 1799 and never came back.

This fisherman is in reflective mood as he sits on his boat, the 'Dewdrop', and looks out over the fast-expanding township of Grange-over-Sands.

The shop window has a display of boats and a poster asking 'When will Alec Rose arrive?'

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

The attention of the lady in the fore ground is riveted by the crew in the fishing boats as they adjust their sails in preparation for leaving harbour.

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.

Away from the busyness of Swan Reach, on a quiet stretch of the river Bure, two ladies in tight-bodiced dresses and hats in Edwardian fashion struggle with the oars of their rowing boat, while two men

The rivers and canal are used for pleasure boating these days.

The one in this picture is particularly attractive with its thatched roofs and boat moored underneath.

At one time, passenger boats from Bristol docked here, and as we can see, the wharf was also used by timber merchants - note the stacks of

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company; one of their boats is moored close by.

There is scant boating activity on this tidal water today.

He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps. He anchored three-quarters of a mile from the present abbey.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that he made his way here in order to hire boats in which to escape from England.

Jerome K Jerome featured the pub in 'Three Men in a Boat', published a year before this picture was taken. He described it as 'the quaintest, most old-world inn up the river'.

Piers allowed the visitor to travel easily over the sea and obtain views of the resort which otherwise would be only possible from a boat, but without any of the attendant discomfort!

Axmouth was once a considerable port, and boats navigated the River Axe as far as Colyton. Certainly the Vikings, raiding this coast, used the Axe to seek plunder far inland.

Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

A boat on a trailer here (left) confirms the ancient links between this community and the sea.