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At this tiny port, a few miles from Camborne, copper ore was shipped for smelting at Swansea. The village, hemmed in by steep hills, nestles within a deep combe.

The Shropshire Union canal runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, especially around the Wheaton Aston area.

Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.

The Custom House was built in the Palladian style in 1683 by Henry Bell, then mayor of this thriving port.

Known more these days as a container port, Felixstowe in 1906 was a genteel seaside resort, and steamers would have pulled up at the pier bringing passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton

This is where busy port and tourism came together. The South Pier, which forms the southern part of the harbour, and from where this picture was taken, was a popular stroll for holidaymakers.

It was still an important port, with several hundred vessels coming up river every year to discharge and take on cargo.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

It was traditionally much more important than its 'little suburb by the sea', and was included in the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports.

Sailing barges are tied up in the Wet Dock, the non-tidal part of the port of Ipswich.

This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports.

What makes the Wet Dock so useful is that it is a non-tidal section of the port. Water in the dock is held at a con- stant level by the lock gates.

Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road. The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.

A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.

While Norwich has operated as a port for hundreds of years, it is only in more recent years that the recreational aspect has become more important, although it is known that Nelson almost certainly learned

Pleasure craft in the background are the future of small fishing ports such as this.

The town of New Romney was once a powerful Cinque Port with strong smuggling links. St Nicholas' Church, New Romney, dates from the 12th century.

Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.

The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

The town was an important medieval port, and copper-ore and granite were once exported from its quay.

In its early years it developed into a substantial fishing port with two deep-sea fishing companies, a fish quay and ice-house, and ship repairing facilities.

Paddle steamers provided pleasure trips and a bus service of sorts out to the coastal ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.