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Aberaeron

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 14'N
Longitude: 04° 15'W
Website: www.cardiganbaysac.org.uk...harb.shtml

The idea of establishing a port at the Aeron's mouth was been the brainchild of a local cleric - the Reverend Alban Jones-Gwynne - in the nineteenth century. It was a thriving port in the days of commercial sailing, and sailing still plays a major part i...

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Aberarth

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 15'N
Longitude: 04° 12'W
Website: www.aberarth.internet-tod...lding.html

During the twelfth century Cistercian monks arrived in Aberarth to establish churches and much of the stone used in the construction of their abbey was brought by sea from Bristol to Aberarth. But following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VII...

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Abercastle

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 57'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W



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Aberdaron

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 48'N
Longitude: 04° 43'W

Porth Meudwy ("Fishermen's Cove"), near Aberdaron, is the location of a slipway. The Bardsey Island Trust runs a boat to the Island, the Benlli, on most Saturdays and Wednesdays during spring and summer - a 20 minute crossing. Contact the boat ow...

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Aberdeen

Area: 58 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 08'N
Longitude: 02° 04'W
Website: www.aberdeen-harbour.co.uk/index.do

Aberdeen Harbour is a world class port annually handling around 4 million tonnes of cargo, valued at approximately £1.5 billion, for a wide range of industries. With versatile facilities, competitive charges and diversity of traffic, it serves Scotland's ...

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Aberdour

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 03'N
Longitude: 03° 17'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...354A6A0CA0

The natural harbour formed by the Dour Burn estuary and Hawkcraig Point gave Aberdour its start in life, but it was the nearby coal which sustained it. Although bad roads limited local commerce, the village long traded with the continent. When the villag...

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Aberdyfi

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 32'N
Longitude: 04° 03'W

Aberdyfi (or Aberdovey) is a small peaceful seaside village nestling on the north side of the Dyfi estuary. A popular resort for many years it has a thriving little harbour and sits within Snowdonia National Park, where the river Dyfi meets the waters of ...

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Aberlady Bay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 02° 52'W

For hundreds of years, man has traded and travelled on this waterway, following its sheltered waters upstream. Aberlady Bay was once the official port of Haddington, and cargoes of fish, coal, grain, liquor, timber and building materials were shipped fro...

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Abersoch

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 49'N
Longitude: 04° 30'W

Abersoch is a coastal resort about seven miles West of Pwllheli on Cardigan Bay on the A499. It has some splendid beaches - Porth Fawr, Porth Bach and Porth Ceiriad being sandy and South facing safe beaches. It is one of the most beautiful of the Llyn pe...

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Aberystwyth

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 25'N
Longitude: 04° 04'W
Website: www.cardiganbaysac.org.uk...harb.shtml

The name Aberystwyth means "Mouth of the Ystwyth" which seems odd as the river Ystwyth only empties into the harbour. But originally the water coursed its way into the old village that sprang up along its banks. There has been a settlement within the mod...

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Acarsaid

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 04'N
Longitude: 07° 16'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Acarsaid has become a key base since the opening of the Eriskay Causeway for the under-12 metre vessels operating around South Uist. The current small pier is unsuitable for smaller vessels and the access road and back-up facilities are extremely poor. ...

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Achiltibuie

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 02'N
Longitude: 05° 22'W

Achiltibuie and its smaller adjoining hamlets form the parish of Coigach, a traditional crofting and fishing community of no more than a couple of hundred houses sprinkled along between mountain and shore on a peninsula looking over the Summer Isles and t...

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Achnacroish (Lismore)

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 30'N
Longitude: 05° 29'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=26

Lismore is a long narrow island, ten miles long (including Musdile at the S. End) and no more than 1½ miles broad. It lies in the Firth of Lorn. Archnacroish is the main village, lying halfway along the island's east coast. As well as having the island'...

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Achuvoldrach

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 30'N
Longitude: 04° 27'W

From 1841 until 1952 a passenger ferry was operated from one of these two jetties by the Munro family, across to the village of Tongue. The last ferryman was Alec Munro. The bridge and causeway were built across the Kyle of Tongue in 1971 and the former f...

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Ackergill

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 28'N
Longitude: 03° 06'W

The slipway at the harbour dates from 1910. It is made of ferro-concrete and was the first of its type to be constructed in the UK. The lifeboat used to be hauled by horses from Wick to Ackergill shore until 1878 when the lifeboat was set up there. The...

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Ailsa Craig

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 15'N
Longitude: 05° 06'W

"Ailsa Craig is a rocky island off the west coast of Scotland in the Firth of Clyde. The outline of Ailsa, as seen from Ayr on the north, or from Ballantrae on the south, has somewhat of a sugar-loaf appearance, but from the opposite coast of Girvan, this...

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Aird Ma Ruibhe

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 07° 11'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

This is the southern terminal for the Sound of Harris ferry service to Leverburgh. Formerly this service sailed from Otternish, but when the causeway to Berneray was completed in 1998, Aird Ma Ruibhe became the new terminal.

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Aird Mhor (Ardmhor)

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 01'N
Longitude: 07° 25'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Ardmhor is the terminal for the Sound of Barra ferry, across to Eriskay. The service commenced in March 2004, enabling cars to be driven, for the first time, all the way from Vatersay in the south, to Port of Ness at the northern tip of Lewis.

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Airor

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 05'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W

Airor is situated at the end of the public highway from Inverie in Knoydart, and is one of the most remote spots in Scotland. There is a small cluster of houses in Airor with about four permanent residents. By 2005 the quay was in a very poor state of rep...

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Aith

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 17'N
Longitude: 01° 22'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...g/aith.asp

Aith lies at the head of the the broad and well-sheltered Aith Voe, at the heart of the west mainland. Aith harbour is home to Aith's small fishing fleet and also services the local fish farming industry, now increasingly important to the economy. It ...

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Aithsvoe

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 02'N
Longitude: 01° 13'W

The Aithsvoe Pier lies on the west side of Aithsvoe, in Cunningsburgh, and was built over fifty years ago. Since its construction it has been extended and upgraded on several occasions, these works having been achieved mainly by a significant voluntary l...

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Alloa

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 06'N
Longitude: 03° 49'W

The history of Alloa as a port goes back further than written records. The first record shows that in 1558 coal was being carried from Alloa to Inch Keith, an island on the River Forth. At this time the roads were few and poor. Alloa is high up on the Riv...

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Alnmouth

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 23'N
Longitude: 01° 36'W

In 1207 Alnmouth (known at the time as St Waleric) was such a prosperous fishing harbour that it was given the status of borough and granted a charter to have a weekly market. It continued to prosper over the years providing a harbour for ships engaged i...

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Altnaharrie

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 53'N
Longitude: 05° 11'W

This jetty used to provide access for the passenger ferry from the Am Pollan slipway in Ullapool, to the south shore of Loch Broom. But in 2003 the Altnaharrie Inn (the former ferryman's residence) was sold and is now a private residence. No ferries hav...

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Amble

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 20'N
Longitude: 01° 34'W
Website: www.tmtr.com/rally/amble_pilot.htm

Amble, at the mouth of the river Coquet, was originally settled by the Romans. The harbour was constructed in the late 19th century as the coal port for the pits at Radclifffe, Broomhill, Newborough and Hauxley, handling around 800 ships and 750,000 tonn...

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Amlwch

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 25'N
Longitude: 04° 20'W
Website: www.anglesey.gov.uk/engli...artime.htm

Tucked away in the north-eastern corner of the island, Amlwch is overshadowed by Parys mountain to the south, and its history has been bound up with the mountain since the Bronze Age. Amlwch was entirely dependent for its prosperity on the copper mines...

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Annalong

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 06'N
Longitude: 05° 52'W

Recent redevelopment as part of the Fishing Villages Programme (1994) has seen significant works including the deepening of the harbour approach channel and basin, the replacement of the surge gate and the installation of a floating pontoon for leisure cr...

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Annan

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 16'W
Website: www.annan.org.uk/shorewal...rfoot.html

In the 18th and 19th centuries Annan was a major point for emigration to America. Waterfoot Road runs along the riverside merse to the remains of the two piers where families caught boats for the New World. In the 19th century the port of Annan forged lin...

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Anstruther

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 02° 40'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...4DCAF28F6D

The walled harbour of Anstruther, known locally as 'Anster,' once contained Scotland's main fishing fleet with over 1,000 boats. Fifty years ago, this picturesque port was so busy with fishing boats it was possible to walk from one side of the wide harbo...

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Applecross

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 48'W

A new slipway was completed in 2001 at a cost of £250,000, providing an all-tide landing facility for local fishing boats and leisure craft. The project was achieved thanks to a funding package of £120,000 from Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE), £10,...

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Appledore

Area: 19 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 03'N
Longitude: 04° 12'W

Appledore is situated at the mouth of the rivers Torridge and Taw in North Devon. Its name appears to be first documented in 1335 under the variation of "Apildare". Tradition has it that in 878 AD Hubba the Dane landed at Appledore and marched inland to...

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Arbroath

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 33'N
Longitude: 02° 35'W
Website: www.angus.gov.uk/services...iceid=1142

Arbroath's first harbour was built in 1394 at Danger Point by Abbot John Gedy. It stood until 1706 when it was destroyed in a gale, another harbour was constructed around 1734. The present Harbour was begun in 1842 and was completed with the opening of th...

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Ard Neakie

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 29'N
Longitude: 04° 39'W

Loch Eriboll's most intriguing and attractive feature is Ard Neakie. This is a mound of land prevented from becoming an island by a tombolo of sand and shingle linking it to the east shore of the loch where the Tongue road descends from the moorland to th...

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Ardarroch

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 36'W

As can be seen from the above photo, a few fishing boats still use the tiny drying harbour enclosed by the old stone jetty.

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Ardcastle

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 04'N
Longitude: 05° 18'W

Once used for shipping stone from a small local quarry, the quay is now a picnic stop on the trail through Ardcastle Wood, on the western shore of Loch Fyne.

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Ardelve

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 17'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

The Aird or Dornie ferry operated from Ardelve across the entrance to Loch Long to Dornie, and also across Loch Duich to Totaig, at least until the beginning of the 20th century. In the final year of operation the ferry ran from 8 am to 8 pm daily, includ...

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Ardfern

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 11'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W
Website: www.ardfernyacht.co.uk/

An old jetty leads to modern pontoons for the popular Ardfern Yacht Centre, where many craft are moored during the summer months.

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Ardglass

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 15'N
Longitude: 05° 35'W
Website: www.ardglass.org/harbour.htm

Ardglass, with its magnificent harbour, is one of three major fishing ports in Northern Ireland. Considerable development of the harbour has taken place in recent years and much of the catch brought into the port is exported throughout Europe. The town ha...

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Ardgour

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 43'N
Longitude: 05° 14'W

Ardgour lies south-west of Fort William on the west bank of Loch Linnhe. The modern pier was built in 1986, replacing the old stone pier used by the steamer plying between Oban and Fort William. The Corran car ferry runs across the loch to Nether Lochaber...

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Ardhasaig

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 55'N
Longitude: 06° 50'W

The jetty and shore area is let on an annual basis by the Estate to Marine Harvest for salmon fishing activities.

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Ardlussa

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 01'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W

Boat trips to the small private jetty at Ardlussa, on the north-east coast of Jura, can be arranged through Gemini Cruises, from the mainland at Crinan.

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Ardmair

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 56'N
Longitude: 05° 11'W
Website: www.ardmair.com/htm/boat.htm

A private jetty used by visitors and residents of the nearby camping and chalet park.

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Ardminish (Gigha)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 43'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=36

Gigha is a small, privately-owned island (length 9 km, maximum width 3 km) off the west coast of Kintyre. A ferry runs to the island's only town, Ardminish, from Tayinloan, 23 miles south of Tarbert. About 200 people live on Gigha, deriving their main inc...

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Ardnadam

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 04° 56'W

Ardnadam Pier is 160m long and has the distinction of being the longest of the Firth of Clyde piers. It was built in 1858 and served as a traditional steamer pier in the glorious days of 'trips doon the water' and as an essential means of transport to Gla...

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Ardrishaig

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 05° 26'W

Ardrishaig is located on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll. Ardrishaig Harbour has a close association with Crinan Canal; if the Canal had not been built Ardrishaig would have had no harbour. Ardrishaig Pier was first opened in 1873. The harbour is arr...

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Ardrossan

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 38'N
Longitude: 04° 48'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=42

Towards the end of the 18th century, the 12th Earl of Eglington proposed a seaport be built at Ardrossan plus a canal to connect the town with Glasgow. Thomas Telford was commissioned to survey Ardrossan Bay, in 1805 an Act of Parliament was passed author...

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Arduaine

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

Arduaine Pier was built circa 1908, to facilitate building of the (now derelict) castle on the island of Shuna. The pier provides access to shallow draught vessels at all states of the tide (less than 3 feet at MLWS), and around 12 foot draught at MHWS...

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Ardveenish

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 00'N
Longitude: 07° 24'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

A slipway, from where a ferry used to run to Ludag, on South Uist. This has now been replaced by a larger service between nearby Aird Mhor and the terminal at Eriskay, which is now joined to South Uist by a causeway.

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Arinagour (Coll)

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 37'N
Longitude: 06° 31'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=20

Aringaour is located at the head of Loch Eatharna on the island of Coll's eastern coastline. It is the main port and principal settlement of the island. The Isle of Coll which is 13 miles long and 3 miles wide in parts is about 50 miles out from the West...

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Arisaig

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 54'N
Longitude: 05° 50'W

Arisaig's pier lies on the shore of Loch nan Ceall. In summer, the pier is a starting place for boat trips to Eigg, Muck and Rum run by Arisaig Marine. An annual regatta is held at Arisaig.

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Armadale

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 03'N
Longitude: 05° 54'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=14

Armadale pier, overlooking the Sound of Sleat, is the terminal for the CalMac vehicle ferry from Skye to Mallaig.

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Armadale Bay

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 03'N
Longitude: 05° 54'W

The old jetty at Armadale is situated on the northern side of the bay. The newer ferry terminal is on the southern side of the bay.

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Arnisdale

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 08'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

Arnisdale Bay has a small but prominent jetty situated in front of the estate house. It is in a poor condition and is inaccessible at low tides. Local boats occasionally use the jetty, but general use is discouraged due to safety concerns. A small
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Arnside

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 12'N
Longitude: 02° 50'W

Arnside's port at the northern end of Morecambe Bay eventually lost its trade to other more accessible harbours. It still retains a pier, built by the railway company in 1860 to compensate for the new viaduct across the River Kent which effectively preven...

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Aros Park (Tobermory)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 37'N
Longitude: 06° 03'W

Situated in Aros Park in Tobermory Bay, this derelict jetty appears to have been part of the Aros Estate.

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Arrochar

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 12'N
Longitude: 04° 45'W

Arrochar pier was built in 1850 to service the steamers that plied the Clyde and the nearby lochs. The 'Three Lochs tour' was particularly popular, whereby steamers would visit Loch Goil and Loch Long, depositing passengers at Arrochar. They would then be...

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Ashlett Creek

Area: 12 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 50'N
Longitude: 01° 20'W

Salt production was important here from Saxon times until the 19th century when corn milling became Ashlett’s principal industry. Flat bottomed sailing barges working the tides handled by perhaps only two men and a boy could negotiate the creek with relat...

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Auchagallon

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 20'W

A seldom-used quay on Arran's west coast. A number of creels litter the foreshore.

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Auchmithie

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 35'N
Longitude: 02° 30'W

Until the beginning of the 20th Century Auchmithie was one of the busiest fishing villages in the district of Angus. Auchmithie was the birthplace of much of the fishing and fish-smoking now centred at Arbroath. This quiet and picturesque village is se...

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Auckengill

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 34'N
Longitude: 03° 04'W

A small stone jetty lies at the foot of a low cliff, accessible only by footpath from the end of a road that leads to the sea from the A99. This quiet spot is frequented only by the occasional small fishing boat. A derelict fisherman's store sits near t...

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Aultbea

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

Aultbea is situated on the shore of Loch Ewe at Aird Point on the west coast of the Ross and Cromarty district of Scotland. It is a small fishing harbour.

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Aust Ferry

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 36'N
Longitude: 02° 38'W

(From Wikipedia) In 1825 a new era opened with the formation of the Old Passage Ferry Association, sponsored by the Duke of Beaufort, as Lord of Tidenham. The company built stone piers on both banks, and commissioned a steamboat which began to ...

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Avoch

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 33'N
Longitude: 04° 10'W
Website: www.avoch.org/content/harbour-0

The harbour is just at the eastern end of the fishertown area, and always has a few a fishing boats in it, and often some from other fishing villages in the north of Scotland. It developed as a fishing village in the late 16th / early 17th centuries, w...

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Axmouth

Area: 15 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 42'N
Longitude: 03° 03'W
Website: www.eastdevon.gov.uk/portinformation

In prehistoric times Axmouth was the most important harbour in the West of England, protected by the iron age hillforts of Hawkesdown and Musbury. The Phoenicians sailed into the River Axe and it was a significant port in Roman times. Ancient roadways all...

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Ayr

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 28'N
Longitude: 04° 37'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...ts/ayr.htm

The port offers considerable experience in handling a wide range of cargoes, including dry bulks, forest products and scrap metal, and is also recognised as a major supply base for the offshore industry. Ayr is becoming an increasingly popular port-of-cal...

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Backaland (Eday)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 09'N
Longitude: 02° 45'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/ba...d_pier.asp

The long, thin and sparsely populated island of Eday lies at the centre of the North Isles group. It is less fertile than the other islands, but its heather-covered hills in the centre have provided peat for the other peatless Orkney islands. Eday's sands...

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Badachro

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 42'W

Badachro is situated in a sheltered bay off the sea loch, Gairloch in Wester Ross. Its natural harbour creates a safe mooring for small craft.

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Badluarach

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 53'N
Longitude: 05° 23'W

Badluarach lies on the southern shore of the sea loch, Little Loch Broom. A passenger ferry operates by request in the summer to Scoraig, on the opposite shore. The jetty is used primarily by the residents of View details)

Baile Mor (Iona)

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 19'N
Longitude: 06° 23'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=30

Baile Mor (or "Big Town") is the ferry terminal for the island of Iona. The Island of Iona lies a mile off the western tip of Mull. The Fionnphort (Mull) to Iona ferry operates a frequent service across the Sound of Iona during the middle of the day when...

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Balblair

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 39'N
Longitude: 04° 08'W

Balblair is a small, compact village beside the coast. It was at one time a ferry point to Invergordon across the Cromarty Firth, but has not been so for over 40 years. The slipway, formerly managed by the Highland Council, is now in private hands. Th...

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Balfour (Shapinsay)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 02'N
Longitude: 02° 54'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/ba...r_pier.asp

The green and fertile island of Shapinsay lies a pleasant 25 minute crossing by ferry from Kirkwall. The MV Shapinsay, commissioned in 1989, operates a regular service throughout the day. The harbour is home to mock defensive walls built by David Balfo...

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Balintore

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 45'N
Longitude: 03° 54'W

Fishing has been the main occupation of Balintore for centuries. The harbour was built at the end of the 19th century by the Harbour Trust, a group of local sea merchants. Increased trade in produce from local farms, winter coal deliveries, and the numb...

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Balintraid

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 04° 05'W
Website: www.buildingsatrisk.org.u...sctID=4619

The 9th report to the Commission on Highland Roads and Bridges, 1821, noted "a Landing Pier of massive dimensions has been erected for the express purpose of facilitating the importation of lime, coals and other articles of consumption in the very fertile...

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Ballachulish Ferry

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 05° 11'W

The Ballachulish Ferry, across the mouth of Loch Leven, closed in 1975 when the road bridge was constructed. Two slipways remain on either side of the loch.

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Ballachulish Old Pier

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 05° 12'W

This derelict jetty was once a destination for steamers.

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Ballantrae

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 05'N
Longitude: 04° 59'W
Website: www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk...ntrae.aspx

Ballantrae or "Kirkubright on Tig" as it was once known is situated some 12 miles to the south of Girvan on the coast road (A77). The harbour was developed further in 1847, at a cost of £6,000, to form the present structure. Ballantrae's small harbour...

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Ballintoy

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 13'N
Longitude: 06° 21'W

Ballintoy is situated about 6 miles west of Ballycastle. The first Ballintoy harbour was built in the eighteenth century by a trickster of the name 'Graceless' Stewart to allow the shipping of cheap coal to Dublin. During the late nineteenth century t...

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Ballycastle

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 11'N
Longitude: 06° 13'W
Website: www.moyle-council.org/ser...ils/?id=61

Ballycastle has been a significant landing-place since at least the 1400s, when it was known as Port Brittas. Later it was the main port for coal boats when coal was mined at Fairhead. In recent years the harbour has become very popular with fishermen and...

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Ballydorn

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 29'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W

The quay was formerly used for coal imports, but its current usage is restricted to leisure purposes, with the adjacent lightship acting as the headquarters for the Down Cruising Club.

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Ballyhalbert

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 29'N
Longitude: 05° 26'W

Ballyhalbert on the Ards peninsular is situated at Burr Point, the most easterly point of Ireland. Its name seems to be a corruprion of Ball-Thalbot or Talbotstown, after the Talbot family which occupied this area following the conquest circa 1300. Th...

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Ballylumford

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W

Ballylumford with its power station (the provider of about half of Northern Ireland's electricity) lies opposite the town of Larne on the Islandmagee side of Larne Lough. A passenger ferry service runs between Larne and Ballylumford Harbour. The nearby...

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Ballywalter

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 33'N
Longitude: 05° 28'W

Ballywalter is a town in County Down, east of Belfast on the Irish Sea. It is on the Ards Peninsula separating Strangford Lough from the sea. It owes its existence to the fact that it is on the coast and it faces Scotland. However between the two li...

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Baltasound (Unst)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 45'N
Longitude: 00° 46'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...asound.asp

Water, stores and fuel are available at Baltasound and minor welding repairs can be carried out. There is a truck and ferry access to Shetland's Mainland and an air service to Lerwick. Major town services and fishmarkets are 52 miles by road and ferry. A ...

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Balvicar

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 17'N
Longitude: 05° 36'W

A small fishery operation works from the quay, catching mainly prawns. Also operating from the quay is Sealife Adventures, who provide whale watching, wildlife and whirlpool cruises.

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Banff

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 02° 32'W
Website: www.banffharbour.co.uk/harbour.htm

Banff started life as a port in the twelfth century. The harbour was created when the mouth of the River Deveron became impossible to use as a harbour due to shifting sand banks. Rocks were cleared from Guthrie's Haven, (the current inner basin) in 1625 ...

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Bangor (Northern Ireland)

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W
Website: www.northdown.gov.uk/main...me=Council

The town of Bangor lies some 14 miles east of Belfast on the Co. Down side of Belfast Lough. Once a seaside resort, Bangor is now a dormitory town with a population of around 60,000. Until 1990 the main commodities handled at the harbour were imported...

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Bangor (Wales)

Area: 27 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 14'N
Longitude: 04° 07'W

When the slate industry in Snowdonia was booming, Bangor was a major seaport shipping slate roofs throughout the world. The evidence is still there on the quayside and can be seen at nearby Penrhyn Castle. The harbour at Bangor is now occupied mainly b...

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Barcaldine

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 31'N
Longitude: 05° 19'W
Website: www.marineresourcecentre..../index.htm

(From the Marine Resources Centre website): The Marine Resource Centre (MRC) is rapidly becoming the most important commercial development campus for marine resources in the West of Scotland. MRC has a unique range of features which comprise i...

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Barmouth

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 43'N
Longitude: 04° 03'W

The first record of Barmouth (or Abermaw) as a small port on the Welsh Coast was in 1565 in a survey commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I. Subsequently, Barmouth and the Afon Mawddach developed as one of the major ship building centres in Wales during the 18...

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Barnstaple

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 05'N
Longitude: 04° 04'W

The name of Barnstaple probably derives from the Old English "Beardan Stapol" meaning the trading post of a man called Bearda. The town that that grew up here in the 9th and 10th centuries on a ford of the river gradually became more important than the o...

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Barrow Haven

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 41'N
Longitude: 00° 24'W
Website: www.oldferrywharf.com

Situated some 22 miles west of Spurn Point on the south bank of the River Humber, Old Ferry Wharf can accommodate vessels up to 120m in length and 3100dwt, with spring tide drafts in excess of 5m. Vessels may sit safely aground at low tide. Typical com...

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Barrow-in-Furness

Area: 29 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 06'N
Longitude: 03° 12'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...barrow.htm

The Port of Barrow, located in south-west Cumbria, is well placed to serve shipping routes to Ireland, mainland Europe, the north Atlantic and beyond. The modern shipbuilding facilities of BAE Systems Marine Ltd are located within the enclosed docks. ...

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Barry

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 03° 14'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf.../barry.htm

On the north shore of the Severn Estuary, nine miles to the west of Cardiff, the Port of Barry has direct rail connections to the national rail-freight network. Barry is a major trading port in South Wales, and its main business comes from supporting ...

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Barry Old Harbour

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 03° 16'W

The site of the ancient port of Barry lay in the western end of Barry Sound, in an area now occupied by the Old Harbour. In the 16th century (and probably earlier) the port’s facilities included the Ostry Tavern and a warehouse. The Old Harbour and Wat...

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Barton Haven

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 42'N
Longitude: 00° 27'W

There were once boat landings along the banks of the Barton Haven all the way down Waterside. Barton clearly had been a great port in the medieval period and although this declined somewhat in the 16th and 17th centuries a revival in its fortunes took pla...

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Bawdsey

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 59'N
Longitude: 01° 25'E
Website: www.bawdseyquay.co.uk

A tiny hamlet on the edge of the sea, Bawdsey Quay is a great place to get away from it all. A few cottages, a sailing school, a sandy beach and a foot ferry (which takes you across the estuary mo...

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Bayble

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 11'N
Longitude: 06° 12'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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Beadnell

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 33'N
Longitude: 01° 37'W
Website: www.beadnell.org/harbour/index.htm

Beadnell is located about two miles south of Seahouses. The harbour is on a small headland at the northern end of the bay of the same name. Throughout its early history Beadnell was a small fishing village. The harbour was built in 1798 to facilitate t...

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Beaulieu

Area: 13 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 49'N
Longitude: 01° 26'W
Website: www.harbours.co.uk/beauli...ulieu.html

In the Solent, almost opposite Cowes, the Beaulieu River and the 18th century shipbuilding village of Buckler's Hard occupy a superb location surrounded by oak woodland within the Beaulieu Estate. Buckler's Hard has been in the private ownership of the Mo...

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Beaumaris

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 16'N
Longitude: 04° 05'W
Website: www.anglesey.gov.uk/engli...artime.htm

Beaumaris Pier lies at the easterly end of the quiet and picturesque resort, situated across the Menai Strait from Bangor and the towering peaks of the great Snowdonia mountain range. Designed by Frederick Foster and constructed of wooden piles and ir...

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Belan

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 07'N
Longitude: 04° 19'W
Website: www.fortbelan.co.uk/history.html

During the Napoleonic wars with the increasing threat of invasion, especially to the North Wales coast, Thomas Wynn, later to become the first Lord Newborough, undertook a bold military strategy and finally built the Belan Fort in 1775, thereby fortifying...

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Belfast

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 37'N
Longitude: 05° 54'W
Website: www.belfast-harbour.co.uk

The Port of Belfast is Ireland's major gateway to Europe, handling more than 60 per cent of Northern Ireland and 25 per cent of the whole of Ireland sea borne trade - in 1999 receiving some 9,000 vessels. More than 80 weekly ferry sailings connect with...

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Berneray

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 07° 10'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Berneray and nearby uninhabited Pabbay lie in the Sound of Harris between North Uist and Harris. Although a number of the islands in the Sound of Harris were once populated, Berneray is now the only one. It shouldn't be confused with the other Berneray th...

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Berriedale

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 10'N
Longitude: 03° 30'W

A very narrow, but deep entrance to the harbour leads to a small quay, now disused except for the occasional fishing craft. The quay is only accessible at high water and rocks lie in wait for the unwary. Old fishing houses line the shore and nets are ...

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Birkenhead

Area: 28 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 24'N
Longitude: 03° 02'W

The rise of Birkenhead, from a hamlet of some 50 inhabitants in 1818 to its present importance, was due in the first place to the foresight and enterprise of William Laird, who purchased in 1824 a few acres of land on the banks of a marshy stream, known a...

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Black Mill Bay (Luing)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 05° 40'W

Slates were exported from this jetty during the 19th century. The quay is now derelict and unused.

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Blackness

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 03° 31'W

The harbour at Blackness was, during the 16th and 17th Centuries, the trading port for Linlithgow, four miles inland. Its splendid castle, build in 1440 by Sir George Crichton but later given to the Crown, helped to ensure the safety of the mercantile ha...

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Blackpots

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 02° 34'W

Blackpots Harbour is a short stroll east from Whitehills Harbour. In 1766 Dr Alexander Saunders is known to have been in possession of the farm at Blackpots, and it was he who established Blackpots Brick and Tile Works, situated immediately above the s...

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Blacktoft Jetty

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 42'N
Longitude: 00° 43'W

The remote village of Blacktoft and its boat jetty are located upstream of the Trent Falls confluence, where the Ouse and Trent rivers meet. The jetty has long provided shelter for ships on passage either up-river to Goole or Selby, or down-river towards ...

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Blackwaterfoot

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 30'N
Longitude: 05° 19'W

Arran has a tendency to go in for tiny harbours, just big enough for two or three very small boats: and this is a typical example, barely visible even from the village's main car park that neighbours it. The entrance channel is marked by poles, but wou...

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Blairmore

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 60'N
Longitude: 04° 53'W
Website: www.blairmorepiertrust.co.uk

This timber pier was built in 1855 and was used by the Clyde steamers. By the end of the 19th century, it was experiening some 4000 calls per year, mainly by railway steamers. In 1922 it closed for repairs and was gifted by the Younger family to the Fore...

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Blakeney

Area: 6 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 57'N
Longitude: 01° 01'E

Blakeney Harbour is an extensive natural harbour protected by an expanding shingle spit and the dunes on the point. It is also a drying harbour which means harbour users are totally dependant on the tides which change daily in terms of height and time. ...

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Boddam

Area: 58 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 27'N
Longitude: 01° 46'W

Even as late as 1839, Boddam had no harbour and the fishing boats had to be hauled up on to the rocks. There were 23 herring boats at that time each earning around £100 per annum. Herring fishing lasted from July to September and summer haddock fishing fr...

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Boscastle

Area: 19 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 40'N
Longitude: 04° 42'W

The pier is said to have been rebuilt twice before 1584, when the present pier was built by Sir Richard Grenville; this was restored in 1740. It was always virtually impossible to sail out of the harbour: instead a ‘hobbling boat’ rowed out with the ‘w...

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Bouley Bay

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 14'N
Longitude: 02° 10'W
Website: www.portofjersey.je/Jerse...bours.aspx

Bouley Bay is a tidal harbour which has deep water moorings within it. It is situated on Jersey’s north coast and is home to around 50 local craft. It is well sheltered from most wind directions. Access into the pier is marked with approach buoys. Caut...

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Brae

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 24'N
Longitude: 01° 21'W

Brae lies at the north end of Busta Voe on the southern outskirts of Sullom Voe. In 1714 Thomas Gifford, the then laird, built a harbour and set up a fishing station. By the mid 1800s, Brae had emerged as a crofting township on the east shore of Bust...

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Braefoot Terminal

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 03° 19'W
Website: www.forthports.co.uk/port...nd/marine/

Located between St. David's and Aberdour, the tanker terminal at Braefoot Bay is a base for the export of liquefied petroleum gas. The gas is piped to an inland site direct from the North Sea, broken down to form ethane and then converted into ethylene, ...

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Brancaster Staithe

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 58'N
Longitude: 00° 41'E
Website: www.bssc.net

Brancaster was an old Roman port, known as Branodunum, the most northerly of a chain of fortifications along the east coast. 'Staithe' means landing place, or quay. Brancaster was once a smuggling centre with locals shipping in goods from France illeg...

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Braye

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 43'N
Longitude: 02° 11'W
Website: www.alderney.gov.gg/index.php/pid/37

There are 70 yellow visitors' mooring buoys, and it is possible to raft up on these in good weather. All other mooring buoys are private, and should not be used with out permission. The anchorage in the middle of the bay has good holding ground in sand, b...

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Breasclete

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 13'N
Longitude: 06° 44'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Breasclete is situated on the west coast of the Island of Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland about 16 miles from Stornoway. The pier, has depths varying from 2.5m at the inner end to 5.4m at the outer end.

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Bridgwater

Area: 20 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 09'N
Longitude: 03° 02'W
Website: www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/portofbridgwater

Bridgwater has been a statutory port since 1500 and a parliamentary Act of 1845 established its present boundaries and structure. It became a recognised pilotage authority when the 1987 Pilotage Act came into effect. It has operated under the auspices o...

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Bridport (West Bay)

Area: 15 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 43'N
Longitude: 02° 45'W
Website: www.westbay.co.uk/harbour.php

Bridport was important in the 19th century for shipbuilding and for exporting rope and nets. The harbour at West Bay is now mainly used by locals, but major redevelopment is underway. The harbour has 102 drying moorings, the majority being let for pr...

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Brightlingsea

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 48'N
Longitude: 01° 02'E
Website: www.brightlingseaharbour.org

The town grew as a result of its close association with the River Colne and its excellent natural harbour. The Oyster fishery was an import industry and there was a large fishing fleet of 'Colchester Smacks'. In the 1930's more sprats were landed in Brigh...

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Bristol (Avonmouth)

Area: 21 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 29'N
Longitude: 02° 42'W
Website: www.bristolport.co.uk/

The Port of Bristol is a major deep water port. The harbour and its operations are designed to accept routinely Cape size vessels of up to 130,000 DWT. In 1991 First Corporate Shipping Limited, a private company owned by Terence Mordaunt and David Ord,...

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Briton Ferry (Neath)

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 37'N
Longitude: 03° 49'W
Website: www.britonferryshipping.c.../index.php

Briton Ferry, a seaport in the mid-parliamentary division of Glamorganshire, Wales, on the eastern bank of the estuary of the Neath river in Swansea Bay, with stations on the Great Western and the Rhondda & Swansea Bay railways, being 174 m. by rail from ...

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Brixham

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 23'N
Longitude: 03° 30'W
Website: www.torbay.gov.uk/index/l...arbour.htm

For centuries the port of Brixham has made its living from the sea. It was in the Middle Ages that Brixham established itself as a major fishing port and by 1850 it was said to be the largest fishery in England. Its narrow street with rows of fisherman's ...

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Broadford

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 14'N
Longitude: 05° 53'W

Broadford is situated along the southern edge of the Inner Sound, forming the largest settlement in South Skye. The main pier in Broadford is still used commercially for fishing and other purposes; a small motor boat, the Family's Pride II, also operates ...

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Broadstairs

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 22'N
Longitude: 01° 27'E

A small town situated at the extreme north-eastern corner of the Kent coast, Broadstairs and the sea go hand-in-hand. For hundreds of years the people of this area earned their living from some aspect of the sea - whether it was fishing, boat building or...

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Brodick (Ferry Terminal)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=41

Brodick is the largest settlement on Arran. In 1839 the Ardrossan Steamboat Company built a wooden paddle steamer called the Isle of Arran and offered a service between Ardrossan and the rather primitive piers then in existence at Lamlash and Brodick. ...

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Brodick (Old Harbour)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W

Brodick's tiny old harbour is situated in the shelter of the larger ferry terminal. It is really only a small inlet on the shore, but houses a number of vessels, including fishing boats and a yacht.

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Brodick (Old Quay)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 36'N
Longitude: 05° 09'W

Also known as the 'Wine Port', this tiny harbour once served the nearby Brodick Castle.

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Brora

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 01'N
Longitude: 03° 50'W
Website: www.brora.biz/harbour.htm

"There is a tolerable harbour for boats and small ships at the mouth of the River Brora." So reads the Statistical Account for the Parish of Clyne circa 1793. In fact boats were often beached at the so-called 'winter port' to the west of the river ...

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Brownies Taing

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 59'N
Longitude: 01° 15'W

Brownies (Broonies) Taing Pier was opened on 19th August 1904. The Brownies Taing Pier Trust was established in 1976. The old sheds and pier at Broonies Taing, on the south side of Sandwick, show what an important role the fishing industry played in th...

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Brownsea Island

Area: 13 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 41'N
Longitude: 01° 57'W
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/...ERTYID=293

Ferry boats run daily from Poole Quay (20 minute journey out, 35 minutes back); Sandbanks (10 minute crossing); Bournemouth Pier (25 minute journey); and Swanage. The island's varied and colourful history includes use as a coastguard station, pottery m...

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Brucehaven

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 03° 28'W

Brucehaven Harbour saw its pier built in 1774-76 for the Chalmers Coal Trade. The pier is known as Capernaum Pier (pronounced 'Cappernum'). This harbour became the home of the Brucehaven Shipbuilders. It is now used by the View details)

Bruichladdich

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 45'N
Longitude: 06° 21'W

Located on Islay opposite the distillery of the same name, this pier is operated commercially by the local Council for the refuelling of tankers. In January 2004 the Council’s proposal to upgrade and extend Bruichladdich Pier received planning approval. ...

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Bruray (Out Skerries)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 25'N
Longitude: 00° 45'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...erries.asp

OUT SKERRIES, lying twenty-four miles north-east of Lerwick, consists of three main islands — Housay and Bruray, the east and west isles joined by the present bridge in 1957, and the uninhabited island of Grunay — together with many other islets and rocks...

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Buchanhaven

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 31'N
Longitude: 01° 47'W

Buchanhaven is one of a string of former fishing communities along this stretch of coast. The earliest written reference to the village is in a plan of Peterhead in 1739. In 1812 an advertisement was placed in the Aberdeen Journal by a wealthy local la...

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Buckhaven

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 10'N
Longitude: 03° 00'W

Once a thriving weaving village and fishing port, it was reported in 1831 as having the second-largest fishing fleet in Scotland with a total of 198 boats. The fishing declined during the 19th century but in the 1860s Buckhaven developed as a mining town....

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Bunessan

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 20'N
Longitude: 06° 17'W

Bunessan is located on the Ross of Mull (Ross meaning 'peninsular'). The pier was constructed from the local granite in 1846, and was known as "The Maize Pier", as much of the work on the pier was done by local men who had to work there in return for t...

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Burghead

Area: 56 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 03° 29'W
Website: www.moray.gov.uk/moray_se...41111.html

The quiet fishing village of Burghead was built in 1805-09 on a peninsula on the Moray Firth. It was built over 'The biggest Iron Age fort in Britain' constructed by the Picts in the 4th-7th century AD. Burghead Harbour, built in its present form in 1...

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Burnham Overy Staithe

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 58'N
Longitude: 00° 45'E

Burnham Overy Staithe is a small coastal village in one of the most attractive areas of the North Norfolk Coast, close to Burnham Market. Sailors, walkers and birdwatchers all enjoy this area immensely. The coast here is a series of creeks and salt marsh...

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Burnham-on-Crouch

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 37'N
Longitude: 00° 49'E
Website: www.crouchharbour.org

In medieval times the town expanded to take advantage of sea borne trade with the Quay allowing direct access to warehouses. The River continued to dominate the town and fishing became a major force with the Mildmay family being granted the exclusive righ...

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Burntisland

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 04'N
Longitude: 03° 13'W

Burntisland lies between Kirkcaldy and North Queensferry on the northern shores of the Firth of Forth. Burntisland handles liquid cargo in the form of caustic soda which is shipped into the port by sea and stored in a 4,500 tonne capacity tank provided...

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Burravoe (Yell)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 35'N
Longitude: 01° 00'W

Burravoe, on the Island of Yell, has a pretty little harbour. Nearby is the Haa of Burravoe, the oldest surviving habitation on the island, housing a small museum on island life. Burravoe was a regular call on the timetable of the Lerwick steamers that...

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Burray

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 51'N
Longitude: 02° 55'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/burray_pier.asp

Burray has a land area of just two and a quarter square miles, with a population of 363 persons (1991 census) and is connected by road to both mainland Orkney and South Ronaldsay by a series of Churchill Barriers, a reminder of recent history. The pier, w...

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Burton-upon-Stather

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 40'N
Longitude: 00° 40'W
Website: www.williegroup.co.uk

A port at Burton-upon-Stather has existed for nearly 2000 years. The Romans used it as part of their Grain run and by 1342 it was given a Royal Charter stating Burton Stather as a major inland port. In the 1600's Hoys would come up the Trent from Stockwi...

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Burwick (South Ronaldsay)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 44'N
Longitude: 02° 58'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/burwick.asp

Burwick pier, on South Ronaldsay, is the Orkney landing point for the passenger (and cycles) only John O'Groats Ferry.

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Busta

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 23'N
Longitude: 01° 22'W

Busta is on the western coast of mainland Shetland. The small harbour is attached to Busta House, built in the 16th century for a former Laird, Busta House is now a hotel.

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Cadgwith

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 59'N
Longitude: 05° 10'W

Cadgwith is often referred to as one of Cornwall's most unspoilt and authentic fishing villages. It is a charming little village, near to the Lizard, with a sheltered harbour and a steep street with lovely cottages either side. It has a few fishing bo...

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Caernarfon

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 09'N
Longitude: 04° 14'W
Website: www.caernarfonharbour.co.uk/

There has been a port at Caernarfon since ancient times. Vessels tied up alongside the famous castle, on the River Seiont, or anchored in the Menai Straits and discharged into lighters. With the growth of the slate industry in the Nantlle and Dinorwic ...

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Cairnbulg

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 01° 55'W

Cairnbulg is a small fishing village lying at the east end of Fraserburgh Bay on the North Sea coast of Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Its harbour, which lies half a mile to the north west of the village at the end of a track, is no longer used commercially. As...

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Cairnryan

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 58'N
Longitude: 05° 00'W
Website: http://cairnryanferry.com/

During the Second World War, Cairnryan became No.2 Military Port, and three harbour piers and a military railway linking the village with nearby Stranraer were built by the army. Thousands of troops were based locally in military camps. At the end of ...

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Calgary

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 35'N
Longitude: 06° 18'W

At the very head of the bay stands a cemetery, which gives the bay something of a mellow, evocative feel, made stronger by the presence of the pier, about half a mile's walk along the bay's northern shoreline. The pier was the last contact with home for m...

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Callanish

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 12'N
Longitude: 06° 43'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Loch Roag is the sea loch that bites deeply into the north west coast of Lewis, part of which envelops the island of Great Bernera. On the east shore of the loch the neck of a headland is home to the small linear settlement of Calanais, and, on a hump of ...

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Camas Glas (Inverewe)

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 47'N
Longitude: 05° 36'W

This jetty is used by tenders to cruise liners for visitors to the Inverewe Gardens.

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Campbeltown

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

Campbeltown, the largest town in the peninsula of Kintyre and third largest in Argyll lies some 140 miles by road from the nearest large town, Glasgow, but only 14 miles across the Irish Sea from Northern Ireland. With a population of around 5,500 people ...

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Campbeltown Loch POL

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

Campbeltown Loch POL Depot is a petroluem, oils and lubricants (POL) depot which is now referred to as a Scottish NATO POL Depot (SNPD). It is situated near the entrance to Campbeltown Loch, a couple of miles from the town centre.

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Camus Mor

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 38'N
Longitude: 06° 25'W

Situated in the quiet bay of Camus Mor on Skye's north west coast, this jetty lies at the end of a narrow road leading from the A855 through the dispersed village of Kilmuir, north of Uig.

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Camusnagaul

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 49'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W

Camusnagaul lies on the Ardgour peninsular opposite Fort William to which it is linked by a small passenger ferry.

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Camusrory

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 59'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

This wooden pier is situated near the head of Loch Nevis, about a mile west of Camusrory House. It is occasionally used by expeditions walking in Knoydart, who are dropped off at this pier before walking back to Inverie. It is owned by the 8,100-acre C...

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Canna

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 03'N
Longitude: 06° 30'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=16

Canna is the most westerly of the four Small Isles and covers 3000 acres. Canna is 4.5 miles long and one mile wide at the most, and is connected to the small island of Sanday ('sand isle') to the south, itself about two miles long. It lies three miles ...

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Caol Ila

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 51'N
Longitude: 06° 06'W



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Caolis

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 56'N
Longitude: 07° 31'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

A landing site built in 1910 by the Congested Districts board shortly after they bought Vatersay from its previous owner Lady Gordon Cathcart. The landing site was mainly used for landing groceries for the local shop and by local fishermen. Before the...

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Cape Wrath

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 37'N
Longitude: 04° 59'W

The jetty was built to service the nearby lighthouse. Until 1998 it was stocked and serviced from the 'Pole Star' supply ship. The seven green tanks at the jetty held thirteen thousand gallons of diesel each. Collectively they were able to supply the ener...

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Carbost

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 18'N
Longitude: 06° 21'W
Website: www.carbost-pier.org.uk

Carbost Pier Ltd is a community company dedicated to developing access to the sea for everyone at Carbost on the Isle of Skye. The pier in the fjord-like Lochh Harport was formerly owned by Diageo, owners of the nearby Talisker Distillery. Many years ago,...

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Cardiff

Area: 21 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 27'N
Longitude: 03° 09'W
Website: www.cardiffharbour.com

Cardiff port is situated on the north side of the Severn Estuary and located in Cardiff Bay at the heart of the Welsh capital. The comprehensive provision of rail facilities allows containers, steel, dry and liquid bulks to be distributed directly from a...

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Cardigan

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 05'N
Longitude: 04° 39'W

From the Middle Ages Cardigan became a major trading port and ship building area. The Port of Cardigan became an important point of emigration to North America. Ships such as The Active and The Albion crossed the Atlantic to take Welsh pe...

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Carloway

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 16'N
Longitude: 06° 47'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Carloway (Carlabhagh) lies at the head of Loch Carloway on the north west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland. It is famous for its well preserved broch which is believed to have been built during the iron age, around 1500 - 2000 y...

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Carn Near

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 58'N
Longitude: 06° 26'W



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Carnlough

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 59'N
Longitude: 05° 59'W

The harbour was built by the Marchioness of Londonderry around 1850. Limestone was exported from here until 1945 when the nearby Glencloy quarries closed. The Eglinton Lime Company of Glenarm used the harbour for several years until the late 1950s, when...

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Carradale

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 35'N
Longitude: 05° 27'W

Carradale is a busy fishing harbour on the east coast of Kintyre, opposite the Isle of Arran. This is very much a working harbour. A plaque on the harbour wall pays tribute to the crew of the Carradale-based fishing vessel Antares, lost to the sea ...

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Carrickfergus

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 49'W
Website: www.carrickferguswaterfro...index.html

Carrickfergus Waterfront is situated on the north shore of Belfast Lough and provides two splendid, safe, secure harbours for craft. Firstly, the magnificent harbour with its resplendent 12th Century Norman Castle has a long and distinguished history....

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Carron

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 04'N
Longitude: 03° 15'W

The harbour was built in the nineteenth century for shipping limestone from the nearby Newbigging Limestone Mine, bound for the Carron Ironworks in Falkirk. It is no longer used commercially and has to some extent fallen into disrepair. It is operated b...

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Carsaig (Argyll)

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 05° 38'W

The quay is popular with children who enjoy fishing for crabs. It is sometimes used as a landing point for dinghies from visiting yachts anchored nearby whilst members of crews visit the Inn or Tayvallich shop to replenish supplies. The stone jetty, bu...

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Carsaig (Mull)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 19'N
Longitude: 05° 58'W

The pier was built in 1850 by Joseph Mitchell for the British Fisheries Commission. This now crumbling structure is situated at the end of a no-through road leading south from the A849 Craignure to Fionnphort road. The pier featured in the 1940s Michael ...

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Carsethorn

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 03° 34'W
Website: www.dalbeattie.com/carset...thorn.html

The village was started by Danish Vikings as a fishing and coastal trading port, the sandy shore giving a hard where it was safe to beach ships at mid-tide on a falling tide, unload or load them from carts at low tide, then float them off on the next risi...

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Castlebay

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 57'N
Longitude: 07° 28'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=13

It's difficult to imagine it now, but Castlebay was a herring port of some significance back in the nineteenth century, with up to 400 boats in the harbour and curing and packing factories ashore. During the mid-years of the 19th century a thriving fis...

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Castlehill

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 36'N
Longitude: 03° 23'W

The harbour was built in the 1820s by James Bremner of Keiss for James Traill of Rattar, Sheriff-Depute, and subsequently Sheriff, of Caithness. After Traill had purchased Castlehill House he built roads and established the flagstone industry at Castlehi...

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Castletown

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 04'N
Longitude: 04° 39'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/CastletownPort.asp

The sheltered harbour at Castletown, lying in the shadow of the well-preserved Castle Rushen, is home to a growing number of leisure craft but access is tidal and the harbour dries on each low water. The port has only occasional commercial activity (sc...

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Catacol

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 19'W

This small jetty on the north-west coast of Arran is no longer used. But remnants of its past remain, including a boat winch and an anchor.

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Catterline

Area: 58 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 54'N
Longitude: 02° 12'W

It appears that the pier was built between 1835 and 1841. By 1881 when the industry was at its peak locally, Catterline had eight herring boats and 21 other boats or yauls. In 1858 six boats were landing herring at Catterline, which became the smalles...

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Cattewater (Plymouth)

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 21'N
Longitude: 04° 07'W
Website: www.plymouthport.org.uk

Located on the south coast of Devon, Plymouth is the largest city on the South coast and boasts one of the world’s finest natural harbours. Apart from the Naval dockyard, the harbour comprises of three separate Commercial harbours (Millbay - primarily pas...

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Ceann a Gharaidh

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 04'N
Longitude: 07° 17'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

The terminal for the Sound of Barra ferry is situated at Ceann a Gharaidh on Eriskay in the Western Isle of Scotland. To accompany the building of the Eriskay Causeway, new harbours and slipways were built at Ardmore on the north east of Barra, and at ...

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Cellardyke

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 14'N
Longitude: 02° 39'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...82F3C2EA7A

An old fishing village on the Firth of Forth, Cellardyke forms the eastern part of the settlement of Anstruther. Formerly known as Lower Kilrenny or Sillerdyke, its present name is a corruption of the latter. Known locally as Skinfast Haven, the har...

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Cemaes Bay

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 25'N
Longitude: 04° 29'W
Website: www.cemaes-bay.co.uk/Beac...arbour.htm

Formerly spelt 'Cemais', meaning bend, the name presumably refers to the shape of the bay. The original harbour was probably no more than a sheltered landing place behind the large rock outcrop at the mouth of the Afon Wygr, but by the early 19th century,...

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Charlestown (Cornwall)

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 19'N
Longitude: 04° 45'W
Website: www.square-sail.com

The St Austell area in the last quarter of the eighteenth century suddenly acquired great industrial significance. The tin and copper mines were booming and a new industry – china clay – grew out of nothing. But St Austell had no harbour, only the open ...

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Charlestown (Fife)

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 03° 30'W

In 1750 Charles, the 5th Earl of Elgin, decided to build a village on this coastal spot in Fife, planned round the extensive lime supplies, and to name it after himself. There was an enormous limestone crag along the north bank of the shore providing easy...

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Chatham

Area: 9 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 00° 33'E
Website: www.medwayports.com/chatham/

Chatham Docks has a new life, following the demise of the naval dockyard. Its quays have been taken over by Medway Ports and are attracting a considerable amount of new trade. The recommissioning of the rail link into the docks has brought an added di...

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Cheesebay

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 39'N
Longitude: 07° 06'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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Church Bay (Rathlin Island)

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 17'N
Longitude: 06° 11'W
Website: www.moyle-council.org/ser...ils/?id=61

Rathlin, Northern Island's only inhabited island, is reached by ferry from Ballycastle. It docks at Church Bay and there are at least two return sailings per day all year round with addi...

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Clachan (Raasay)

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 20'N
Longitude: 06° 04'W

This jetty, together with an associated dock, was the former main harbour of Raasay.

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Claonaig

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 43'N
Longitude: 05° 25'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=39

Claonaig lies on the Kintyre peninsula of Argyll and Bute, about 9 miles from Tarbert. Caledonian Macbrayne run a small summer ferry from here to Lochranza on Arran.

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Cley-next-the-Sea

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 57'N
Longitude: 01° 03'E

Cley is a former port left stranded by the receding sea. 'Cly', if you want to be in with the locals, is on the edge of one of Britain's foremost nature reserves. Cley's early seafaring days were not exactly peaceful ones. By 1317, the harbour was rep...

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Coleraine

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 07'N
Longitude: 06° 43'W

Coleraine Harbour, a small tidal port, is situated on the River Bann, 4½ miles from the entrance. The barmouth and channel to the harbour is maintained at 3½m below chart datum. A heavy swell may prohibit entry and exit. It is a small commercial harbo...

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Colintraive

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 55'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=45

Colintraive is an area located in Argyll and Bute on the Cowal Peninsula on the West Coast of Scotland. It lies on the eastern side of the waters called the Kyles of Bute opposite the settlement of Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute. It is linked to Bute by ...

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Collafirth

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 32'N
Longitude: 01° 20'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...afirth.asp

The fishing industry lives on at Collafirth pier, built in 1988 on the site of an old Norwegian whaling station and now home to one of Britain's largest fishing boats. Smaller inshore boats work from Hamnavoe and Hillswick as well as Collafirth.

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Combe Martin

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 12'N
Longitude: 04° 02'W

Until the end of the 19th century, the Combe Martin harbour used to be filled with coastal vessels. It was once a very prosperous harbour, exporting locally grown strawberries and hemp. There is now no evidence of a quay, except possibly at the very head ...

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Connah's Quay

Area: 27 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 13'N
Longitude: 03° 05'W

The town of Connah's Quay began to develop some two hundred years ago, on the banks of the estuary of the River Dee, in the parish of Northop. With the silting up of the River Dee following the construction of the “New Cut” in the 18th century, Chester...

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Corpach

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W
Website: www.clydeport.co.uk

The small port of Corpach lies opposite Fort William, at the junction of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil. Extensive open and covered storage facilities are available and a range of products is handled including timber, agricultural, genera, project and bulk...

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Corrie - Sandstone Jetty

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 38'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W

This is the larger of Corrie's two man-made harbours. The red sandstone which gives its name to the harbour can be seen on the beach.

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Cove Bay

Area: 58 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 06'N
Longitude: 02° 04'W

A miniature, natural harbour with a stone jetty constructed in 1878. In the mid 19th century when fishing was at its height, cod, haddock, salmon, herring and shellfish were caught. Nowadays only a small number of shellfish boats operate from here.

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Coverack

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 01'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W
Website: www.coverack.org.uk/pages...rbour.html

Coverack harbour is a pleasant place to linger. Once famous for smuggling even the fishing is now restricted to just a few boats.

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Craigendoran

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 04° 43'W

The North British Railway operated the Steam Packet Company steamers from here, from 1882. The station consisted of two through platforms on the line to Helensburgh Central, two through platforms on the West Highland Railway, and a bay platform which exte...

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Craighouse

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 56'W

Craighouse pier, on the east coast of Jura, was formerly the destination of a ferry from the mainland, which no longer operates. The pier is still used by local fishermen and for recreational purposes. Off the pier there are eight 15 tonnes moorings, ow...

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Craignish

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 09'N
Longitude: 05° 36'W

An old jetty in Loch Beag, no longer in use.

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Craignure (Old Pier)

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 28'N
Longitude: 05° 42'W

The original pier at Craignure was built in 1894. It projects from the south side of the bay, a short distance from the ferry pier.

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Craignure Ferry Terminal

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 28'N
Longitude: 05° 42'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=27

Craignure lies close to Mull's easternmost point, and it is reasonably equidistant from the island's two main destinations: Tobermory to the north and Iona to the west. It is the main terminus for the ferries from Oban. The village, whose name means '...

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Crail

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 15'N
Longitude: 02° 37'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...4A014455C3

Crail, the most easterly village of the East Neuk of Fife, is also its most ancient Royal Burgh. Ten miles south east of St Andrews, it has one of the most photographed harbours in the whole of Scotland. The harbour is surrounded by white rendered and...

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Cramond

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 18'W
Website: www.cramondboatclub.co.uk

Cramond has a long and fascinating history as a port, the earliest recorded use being by the Romans. The river was used in conjunction with the Iron Trade in the 18th & 19th centuries, importing iron and exporting nails all over Europe. The potential ...

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Craster

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 28'N
Longitude: 01° 35'W
Website: www.harbourlights.nu/pilo...utline.htm

Craster lies almost half way along the Heritage Coast - a twenty mile stretch of coastline designated as one of the nation's 'Areas of Outstanding Beauty'. As well as being a thriving fishing harbour, Craster has prospered over the centuries from the ston...

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Creux (Sark)

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 26'N
Longitude: 02° 20'W

The first harbour at Creux was built in 1588 by the first settlers, but the present harbour dates from 1868, the winter storms of 1865/6 destroying the original walls. The picturesque old harbour is now used mainly by fishermen and yachtsmen, or by fe...

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Crinan

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 05'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

The village of Crinan is rather less well known than the Crinan Canal, which enters the Sound of Jura here. The Crinan Canal took its name from the original small settlement on the east side of the headland here, where the Crinan Ferry landed. Much of...

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Crinan Ferry

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 06'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

A ferry from Crinan used to cross the Loch Crinan estuary here, but ceased in the 1960s. The slipway is only used occasionally for launching dinghies.

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Croggan

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 43'W

Now fenced off with a padlocked gate, this pier in Loch Spelve was constructed in 1896. Apparently Queen Victoria had asked for it to be built. It is believed to have once been a scheduled stop for MacBrayne steamers visiting this remote part of Mull. ...

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Cromarty

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 04° 00'W
Website: www.cromartyharbour.org/

Cromarty Harbour was designed by John Smeaton and built by John Gwyn, under Smeaton's direction, between 1781 and 1784. It incorporated a stone jetty (now the west pier) which had already been built out to the low water mark. Smeaton built an east pier ...

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Cuan

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 16'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

The Council-operated vehicle ferry across the narrow Cuan Sound takes just five minutes, a distance of 285 metres. The MV Belnahua can carry up to six cars and 40 passengers in summer. This is reduced to 33 passengers in winter. Vehicles are loa...

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Cullercoats

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 01'N
Longitude: 01° 25'W

Strictly speaking, this is not a harbour in the true sense, as there is no jetty. But the piers that enclose the sandy bay certainly provide adequate shelter. At the south of the bay is a launching point for leisure craft, whilst a ramp on the north side ...

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Cumbrae Slip

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 47'N
Longitude: 04° 53'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=52



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Cushendall

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 05'N
Longitude: 06° 03'W

Cushendall lies at the heart of the Glens of Antrim on the shores of the sea of Moyle between the towns of Carnlough and Cushendun. The area's natural beauty was officially confirmed when it was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). ...

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Dalbeattie

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 03° 50'W
Website: www.dalbeattie.com/history/dbtport.htm

The Port of Dalbeattie was a place where ships could unload or load whilst afloat and secured to a quayside. It began as the 'Dub o'Hass', literally 'The Hole in the Bank', a point at which the Dalbeattie Burn entered the River Urr. There, the scour of Bu...

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Dales Voe

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 12'N
Longitude: 01° 10'W

The eastern mouth of Yell Sound leads into the miniature sea lochs of Dales Voe, Collafirth, and Swining Voe situated on the east mainland of Shetland. The large salmon farms in the area make night navigation unwise. The jetty is used to service oil r...

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Dalgety Bay

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 03° 20'W

The new town of Dalgety Bay was built upon the former Earl of Moray's Donibristle Estate. The parkland is now covered with housing. But the 'New Harbour', built in the 1800s to house the Earl's yacht, still remains, fittingly located within the grounds ...

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Dalintober

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 35'W

Dalintober Jetty is situated on the northern side of Campbeltown Loch, facing the main harbour and town. It is currently used only for leisure purposes.

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Dalmore

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 04° 15'W

Dalmore distillery is located at Alness, on the A9 north of Inverness. It was established in 1839 when Alexander Matheson, a wealthy Hong Kong trader, bought Ardross farm on the northern shore of the Cromarty Firth. In the early days, his trading firm dea...

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Dartford

Area: 9 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 27'N
Longitude: 00° 15'E
Website: www.dartline.co.uk/about/thames/

Situated next to the M25 at Dartford, adjacent to Crossways Business Park and only 16 miles from central London, the Dart Terminal offers the shortest overall routes to the industrial heartlands of Northern and Central Europe via three daily Dart Line Ro-...

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Dartmouth

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 20'N
Longitude: 03° 33'W
Website: www.dartharbour.org.uk

Dartmouth is a natural harbour, steeped in maritime heritage, accessible at any tide, in any weather, at any time of day or night. It is the finest natural harbour of any size between Poole and Plymouth. For over 900 years sailors have set sail from D...

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Derbyhaven

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 05'N
Longitude: 04° 36'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/DerbyhavenPort.asp

A shallow water bay sheltered by an island breakwater, Derbyhaven’s south eastern position makes it ideal for leisure craft, but not suitable for commercial vessels. The bay is in a picturesque setting alongside the Castletown Golf Links championship cour...

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Diabaig

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 41'W

Lower Diabaig is at the end of the road on the north side of Loch Torridon, 9 miles/15 km (20 minutes) from Torridon village. Before WW1 the steam-powered puffers from Clydeside put in to unload coal and bought goods and take on barrels of the herring. It...

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Donaghadee

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 39'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

Donaghadee's large harbour was built in 1820 to accommodate the mail ships which were transferred to Larne in 1849. Donaghadee was a major port that offered the only safe refuge from the treacherous reefs on this coast. It was also the most popular rout...

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Douglas

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 09'N
Longitude: 04° 28'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/DouglasPort.asp

Unlike Castletown and Peel Douglas has very little to offer historically. Originally an unimportant fishing hamlet, Douglas first began to look up in the eighteenth century when Smuggler Bill and his confederates discovered how convenient a base it was fo...

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Downpatrick

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 21'N
Longitude: 05° 43'W

The present narrow channel at Quoile Quay used to be a wide estuary filled with sea water at each high tide. The remains of Quoile Quay reminds us that until the 1940s this was a busy port, with sailing ships and steamers carrying timber, coal and slates ...

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Drinishadar

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 51'N
Longitude: 06° 46'W

Improvements costing £50,000 have been made recently to the pier, which is used mainly by local fishing boats.

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Droman

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 28'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

Droman pier lies in a small pebbled cove, just north of Kinlochbervie. It is only used occasionally by local fishermen and is in a generally poor state of repair. A substantial car park is located at the head of the jetty.

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Dunbar

Area: 61 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 02° 29'W
Website: www.dunbarharbourtrust.co.uk

Dunbar has always played an important part in the history of Scotland, as it was on one of the four routes into Scotland in a bygone age. Because of its position, many battles were fought in the surrounding area for superiority to the main road. One such ...

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Dunbeath

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 14'N
Longitude: 03° 26'W

Dunbeath harbour was built about 1800 and in 1814 had 155 boats fishing for herring. At one time ice was cut in the river in winter and stored in the ice house at the harbour. As a fishing village Dunbeath's importance declined as small fishing b...

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Dunvegan

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 26'N
Longitude: 06° 35'W

Dunvegan is on the north coast of the Isle of Skye. For most people, Dunvegan tends to mean Dunvegan Castle, which can be found a mile or so north of the village. Dunvegan Castle is the ancestral home of the chieftans of the Clan MacLeod. The castle dates...

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Dwarwick

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 37'N
Longitude: 03° 22'W
Website: http://finstrokes.com/div...-pier.html

The original small stone pier was constructed and funded by the Caithness County Council and the people of Dunnet between 1893 and 1897. It is a favourite place from which to launch small boats, to fish from the end of the pier in relatively deep water,...

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Dysart

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 07'N
Longitude: 03° 08'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...7DAA2CAE90

Dysart became a Royal Burgh in 1594, and its population was similar to that of Kirkcaldy until the 19th century. It then started to decay, and finally it was incorporated into Kirkcaldy in 1930. The old harbour was once an important port of call on th...

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Easdale

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 17'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W
Website: www.easdale.org/harbour/index.php

The community of Easdale Island is built around its harbour, whose “B” listed walls were constructed in the eighteenth century around a naturally existing bay. The harbour is a unique example of the architectural and industrial heritage of the area an...

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East Tarbet

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 38'N
Longitude: 04° 53'W

This quay is situated at the east side of the isthmus which separates the Mull of Galloway from the Rhinns. It is no longer used, except by the occasional fisherman.

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Eastbourne

Area: 11 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 48'N
Longitude: 00° 21'E
Website: www.sovereignharbour.co.uk

Opened in 1993, Sovereign Harbour has over 600 permanent berths, with some 3,000 yachts visiting each year. Sovereign Harbour is located just two miles from Eastbourne on the A259 Pevensey Bay Road towards Hastings. Developed by Carillion, the marina...

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Easterdale

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 05'N
Longitude: 01° 20'W



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Egilsay

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 09'N
Longitude: 02° 56'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/eg...y_pier.asp

Orkney Ferries operate a daily circular route embracing Tingwall and the three islands of Rousay, Wyre and Egilsay. The terminal at Skaill is surprisingly large, considering only 20 or so pe...

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Eilean Glas (Scalpay)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 51'N
Longitude: 06° 39'W

This jetty was formerly used to supply the lighthouse, but this was automated in 1978 and the jetty is no longer in use.

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Ellenabeich

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 17'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W

Ellenabeich on the Isle of Seil is connected to the mainland via the famous 'Bridge over the Atlantic' at Clachan. The Council-operated passenger ferry service from Ellenabeich to Easdale Island is just 340 metres across Easdale Sound, and takes only ...

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Eoligarry

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 03'N
Longitude: 07° 25'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Eoligarry pier is located on the Eoligarry peninsular at the northern tip of the Isle of Barra. It was the site of a small ferry terminal taking passengers to Ludag on South Uist until a new vehicle ferry went into service operating between Barra and Eris...

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Falmouth

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 09'N
Longitude: 05° 03'W
Website: www.falmouthport.co.uk

Falmouth Harbour, including the Carrick Roads, is reputed to be the third largest natural harbour in the world. Falmouth Harbour Commissioners are a statutory port authority with responsibility for the Inner Harbour at Falmouth (excluding Falmouth Docks)...

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Fanagmore

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W

Boats depart from Fanagmore to cruise on Loch Laxford to visit seal colonies and view seabirds. Cruises are available from mid-May to September. Tel: 01971 502251 or contact Laxford Cruises.

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Fasag (Torridon)

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 33'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

On the west side of Loch Torridon is the settlement of Fasag - a Clearance township created in the 19th century when crofting families were evicted from their own land to make way for sheep. The jetty is seldom used and is in a poor condition. Fasag (...

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Faslane

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 03'N
Longitude: 04° 49'W
Website: www.royal-navy.mod.uk/ser...w/nav.3157

Together with RNAD Coulport, forms HM Naval Base Clyde. Faslane is home to the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent and the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland.

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Faversham

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 20'N
Longitude: 00° 54'E
Website: www.faversham.org/visitor...vcreek.asp

Faversham Creek is a drying creek running south off the The Swale at Harty Ferry, some 6 miles west of Whitstable. Swale Borough Council, Faversham Town Council and the Medway and Swale Estuary Partnership are working together to promote Faversham Cree...

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Filey Coble Landing

Area: 3 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 13'N
Longitude: 00° 17'W
Website: www.yorkshireports.co.uk/...filey.aspx

From the records of disputes in the 12th century between Bridlington Priory, Whitby Abbey and Grimsby Abbey, concerning the payment of fish tithes, we know that men were fishing from Filey more than 800 years ago. Other evidence suggests that Filey has b...

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Finnart

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 06'N
Longitude: 04° 50'W

Finnart on Loch Long is a deep-water terminal, where tankers discharge their oil to be pumped by pipeline to Grangemouth, 60 miles away to the east. It was built by the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. After the war this developed into the Finnart O...

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Fishguard

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 60'N
Longitude: 04° 58'W

Fishguard is one of the more recently constructed harbours in the United Kingdom. This harbour is noteworthy not only for the magnitude of the engineering work involved in its formation, but also as typifying modern tendencies in the location of an ideal ...

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Flamborough Landing

Area: 3 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 07'N
Longitude: 00° 07'W

For centuries the fishermen of Flamborough have kept their cobles in North and South Landings. These small craft are still used for catching fish, crabs and lobsters. The Vikings probably gave Flamborough its name as Flam is a Norse word for a spit or t...

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Flotta - Gibraltar Pier

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 50'N
Longitude: 03° 08'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/gi...r_pier.asp

The Flotta Oil Terminal started work in December 1976, and since then about 10% of the UK's oil output has come ashore here to be pumped into tankers for transport across the world. The 223ft high gas flare is the most prominent feature on Flotta toda...

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Flotta - Sutherland Pier

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 50'N
Longitude: 03° 08'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/su...d_pier.asp

Flotta's Sutherland Pier is used by fishing vessels.

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Fort William

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 49'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

A passenger ferry to Camusnagaul, on the opposite side of Loch Linnhe, operates from the pier.

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Fraserburgh

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 01° 59'W
Website: www.fraserburgh-harbour.co.uk

Fraserburgh Harbour is situated in the North East corner of Scotland and is ideally positioned for the fishing grounds of the North and East of Scotland as well as being in close proximity to the North Sea Oil and Gas fields. The location also makes it we...

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Fremington Quay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 05'N
Longitude: 04° 08'W

Fremington Quay was once known as the busiest port between Bristol and Lands End, exporting ceramics, clay and other local produce and importing culm and coal for the railways. It had railway sidings and cranes. Later, an abattoir was located here. The qu...

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Gainsborough

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 24'N
Longitude: 00° 47'W
Website: www.gainsboroughriverside.org.uk

The Trent has always been the life and soul of Gainsborough, Britain's most inland port; indeed, it was the river which brought the first settlers. The tribe of Angles called the Gainas sailed up the Trent soon after the Romans had left. Protected by the...

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Gairloch

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 41'W
Website: www.highland.gov.uk/youre...arbour.htm

Gairloch harbour, once the centre of a thriving cod fishery, is today home to a small handful of fishing boats, landing a range of fish and shellfish. Sea fishing trips go out daily in the season from the Aird Pier. The harbour is situated at the south en...

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Gallanach

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 31'W
Website: www.puffin.org.uk

Situated 1½ miles south of Oban on the Kerrera Sound coast road, this former harbour is now a centre for the diving community.

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Gallochoille (Gigha)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 44'W

Gallochoille pier on the small island of Gigha is used by local fishermen. The Island of Gigha is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, it lies between Islay and Kintyre and can be accessed by ferry from Taylinloan on Kintyre. Because it is lo...

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Galmisdale (Eigg)

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 52'N
Longitude: 06° 07'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=18

Galmisdale is the point of access for the island of Eigg, at 8km by 6km the second largest of ‘The Small Isles’, occupying the area between the Isle of Skye to the north and the Ardnamurchan peninsula to the south. Eigg has a population of over 60 inhabi...

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Gardenstown

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 02° 20'W

Originally known as Gamrie, Gardenstown was founded in 1720 by Alexander Garden specifically as a fishing village. On the hillside to the west, and visible from most parts of Gardenstown, are the remains of the Church of St John the Evangelist. This preda...

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Garlieston

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 46'N
Longitude: 04° 22'W
Website: www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.a...Garlieston

Garlieston Harbour is a tidal harbour, and is the closest port in Scotland to the Isle of Man. The harbour was used for a trial version of the Mulberry harbour used in the D-day landings. This harbour used to be a very busy commercial fishing port, but to...

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Garston

Area: 28 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 21'N
Longitude: 02° 54'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...arston.htm

Garston is the premier short-sea shipping port serving north-west England, serving the hinterland of Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire and the north and west Midlands. On the north bank of the River Mersey, Garston is 10 km from Liverpool city centre and i...

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Geo of Nethertown (Stroma)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 41'N
Longitude: 03° 07'W

An unused jetty on the island of Stroma, which is no longer inhabited. For a detailed history of the island of Stroma, see this site.

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Geocrab

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 48'N
Longitude: 06° 49'W

This private jetty is used solely by Marine Harvest for its fish farming actvities.

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Gillingham

Area: 9 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 00° 35'E
Website: www.medwayports.com/index2.htm

The harbour area at Gillingham is now used solely for leisure. There are two marinas - Gillingham Marina and Medway Pier Marine. The latter is based at Gillingham Pier. The area comes u...

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Gill's Bay

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 38'N
Longitude: 03° 09'W
Website: www.pentlandferries.co.uk

The harbour is well known locally for the seals which are often to be seen lying on the rocks near to the seashore. Pier facilities have been built for the Ro/Ro ferry service to St Margaret's Hope on South Ronaldsay for both vehicles and passengers, the...

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Girvan

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 15'N
Longitude: 04° 50'W
Website: www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk...n/port.htm

There has been a harbour of some sort on the river Girvan (or 'Garvan') for thousands of years. Sea water levels were much higher in the distant past, thus the harbour has had various locations. In 82 AD until 407 AD there was a Roman presence in Sout...

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Glasgow

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 51'N
Longitude: 04° 14'W
Website: www.clydeport.co.uk/index...age_id=142

King George V Dock handles a wide range of international cargoes, including animal feeds, grain, and other dry bulk cargoes, aggregates, timber, glass products, wind farm and specialised project cargoes. The adjacent Shieldhall Riverside Berth offers d...

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Glasson Dock

Area: 29 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 59'N
Longitude: 02° 51'W
Website: www.glassongrain.co.uk/po...rvices.asp

A group of 18th century merchants from Lancaster built Glasson Dock to import goods such as tobacco, cotton and rum from the West Indies, in 1746 on the south bank of the River Lune estuary in open countryside about 5 miles south of the city. The port ...

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Glenariff

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 03'N
Longitude: 06° 02'W

In 1873, a railway was constructed along the south side of the glen to transport iron ore from the Cloghcor mines at the valley head to Milltown Pier, which lay on the south side of Red Bay at Glenariff. The six-mile long track had the distinction of bein...

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Glenarm

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 58'N
Longitude: 05° 57'W

Glenarm, first of the nine Glens of Antrim, claims to be the oldest town in Ulster having been granted a charter in the 12th Century. The most recent addition to the village is the careful and sensitive restoration of its distinctive limestone-built ha...

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Glencaple

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 00'N
Longitude: 03° 33'W

Glencaple was once a busy port on the River Nith five miles from Dumfries with quays from which ships sailed to America and the West Indies. In 1746, the Earl of Nithsdale gave land at Glencaple for an outport, and stone from his quarries at Bankend i...

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Glencripesdale

Area: 199 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 39'N
Longitude: 05° 49'W

Glencripesdale lies eight miles along a track, from the A884 at Liddesdale, on the Morvern Peninsula. It is not accessible by car. A ferry used to cross Loch Sunart to the jetty at Glencripesdale. The owner applied unsuccessfully in 2004 to upgrade t...

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Glenmallan

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 08'N
Longitude: 04° 48'W

Glenmallan (or Glen Mallan) jetty lies on the west side of the A814 road, and was built during the 1970s to provide facilities for the loading and unloading of munitions and stores for vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) and the British fleet. The ...

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Glensanda

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 31'W
Website: www.foster-yeoman.co.uk/i...ectId.1581

The quay and quarry at Glensanda is owned and operated by Foster Yeoman, a major supplier of coated stone producs. Some 6m tonnes of granite are exported annually from Glensanda, placing it in the top twenty of all UK ports for exports. Nearly 5m tonnes...

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Gorran Haven

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 13'N
Longitude: 04° 47'W

The heart of Gorran Haven is a cluster of fishermen's cottages, nestling around a secluded cove which remains much the same as in years gone by. Between the 13th and 19th centuries Gorran Haven, or Porth East as it was then known, had a larger fishing ind...

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Graemsay

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 56'N
Longitude: 03° 16'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/gr...y_pier.asp

An island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow in the Orkney Isles, Graemsay lies between the Mainland of Orkney and the island of Hoy. Rising to a height of 62m (203 feet) at West Hill, the island has an area of 409ha (1011 acres) and a population of ...

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Grangemouth

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 03° 40'W
Website: www.forthports.co.uk/port...ts/?port=6

Grangemouth is the main port of Central Scotland. Each year approximately 9 million tonnes of cargo are handled through the dock facilities. Of this 1.5 million tonnes is dry cargo representing incoming raw materials for Scottish Industry and outgoing fin...

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Granton

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 12'W
Website: www.forthports.co.uk/port...onHarbour/

Granton Harbour lies on the Firth of Forth, about a mile to the west of Newhaven and 2½ miles to the north of the centre of Edinburgh. It was constructed to accommodate shipping too large for the small harbour at Newhaven. The building of the Centr...

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Grass Point

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W

Until 1881 a regular packet boat operated between Oban and Grass Point. This was replaced that year by a daily steamer service from Oban to Tobermory. Until that time, cattle from Rum and Eigg were transported by boat to Croig on Mull's north coast, and...

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Gravir

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 02'N
Longitude: 06° 23'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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Great Yarmouth

Area: 6 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 35'N
Longitude: 01° 45'E
Website: www.eastportuk.co.uk

Great Yarmouth has had a harbour since the time of Edward the Confessor. Various improvements were made during the Middle Ages and during his visit in 1724, Daniel Defoe claimed that the South Quay was “the finest quay in England, if not Europe”. At...

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Grove Wharf

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 35'N
Longitude: 00° 42'W

Together with Neap House Wharf, Grove Wharf handles a wide range of cargoes on the River Trent.

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Ham

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 39'N
Longitude: 03° 19'W

The persistent action of the sea is inevitably taking its toll of Ham harbour, which has not been used or maintained for many years. The inlet was first mentioned by MacFarlane, c1725, as a place used by small trading vessels. Moll’s map of the same da...

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Ham Voe (Foula)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 08'N
Longitude: 02° 02'W

The SIC Foula ferry "New Advance" is based in the island. From May to September it crosses to Walls (west coast mainland) and back on Tuesdays, alternate Thursdays, and Saturdays, the port of call being Scalloway every second Thursday.

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Hamble

Area: 12 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 51'N
Longitude: 01° 17'W
Website: www.hants.gov.uk/hambleharbour/

The River Hamble at the heart of the sheltered waters of the Solent, protected from the open sea by the Isle of Wight, and benefiting from a two hour stand at high water, is an ideal base for cruising whether one's horizons are limited to the Solent and I...

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Hamnavoe (N. Mainland)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 25'N
Longitude: 01° 05'W



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Hamnavoe (S. Mainland)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 06'N
Longitude: 01° 20'W

A small fishing village on the island of Burra. Hamnavoe is a natural harbour and home to one of the largest fishing fleet in the islands. The fishing grounds of Burra are known as "The Haaf".

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Harrington

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 38'N
Longitude: 03° 33'W
Website: www.allerdale.gov.uk/defa...x?page=932

Harrington Harbour, situated on the West Cumbrian coast just south of Workington, was originally developed as an iron ore and coal port. The first small quay at the mouth of the river Wyre was constructed by Henry Curwen in 1760. At that time there were n...

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Harrow

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 39'N
Longitude: 03° 14'W

In the 19th century flagstone was exported directly from Harrow by boat using chartered vessels, but in 1862 a sailing vessel, the "Bessie" was purchased. On return journeys she would import coal, lime and domestic goods for Barogill Castle. Bessie appe...

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Hartland Quay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 59'N
Longitude: 04° 31'W

The quay was originally built in the late 16th century but was swept away in 1887. Hartland Quay was once a thriving harbour, mainly because of the area's remote location and the difficulty encountered in transporting goods by road. In the mid 18th cen...

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Hartlepool

Area: 2 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 41'N
Longitude: 01° 11'W
Website: www.thpal.co.uk/hartlepool.shtml

During the Middle Ages Hartlepool was one of the busiest ports on the east coast, but by the 18th century decline had set in and the harbour was in disrepair. In 1808 the harbour was enclosed and drained, and two years later part of the old pier was dest...

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Harwich Haven

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 56'N
Longitude: 01° 18'E
Website: www.hha.co.uk

Harwich seems to have appeared on the scene around 1150, but it quickly became a thriving port with, evidence suggests, a certain urgency about the place. Harwich’s importance as a port is a result of its location; protruding out as it does into the estua...

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Harwich International

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 56'N
Longitude: 01° 17'E
Website: www.harwich.co.uk

Harwich International Port is one of the UK's leading multi-purpose freight and passenger ports with excellent road and rail links to the Midlands, London and the South East. It is ideally located for North Sea freight and passenger traffic to and from S...

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Harwich Navyard

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 56'N
Longitude: 01° 18'E
Website: http://users.quista.net/f...avyard.htm

Navyard Wharf is operated by the Harwich Dock Company Ltd., who transport roll-on roll-off cargo to and from various ports in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium. Previously this was the site of the naval shipyard and, before that, the 16th ...

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Hastings

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 51'N
Longitude: 00° 36'E

Once the head of The Cinque Ports, the harbour disappeared in the great storm of 1287, but despite this Hastings still supports the largest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats in Britain. They make a colourful sight drawn up on beach at the bottom of Ea...

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Haun

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 05'N
Longitude: 07° 16'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Before the causeway was opened in 2002 the ferry to South Uist operated from Haun to Ludag. The harbour nowadays is used for fishing and leisure purposes.

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Havre Gosselin (Sark)

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 26'N
Longitude: 02° 22'W

This small harbour on the west side of Sark was built in 1912.

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Hawes Pier

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 23'W

Hawes Pier lies almost directly below the Forth Rail Bridge and directly opposite the Hawes Inn. Ferries used to ply from here across to North Queensferry and pleasure boats still use the pier for day and evening cruises. The pier itself runs down into ...

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Hawkcraig Point

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 03'N
Longitude: 03° 17'W

A ferry used to run across to Leith from this pier, which was built in the 1850s. When the railway came to Aberdour in 1890, the half-hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh soon put the steamers out of business. The pier is now in a ruinous and danger...

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Hayle

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 11'N
Longitude: 05° 25'W
Website: www.hayleharbourauthority...fault.aspx

Hayle is a tidal harbour with facilities for vessels of beam 12 metres, overall length 60 metres and draft 4 metres. Hayle’s success was initially founded on the smelting of copper, demanding massive imports of coal; this had ceased by 1806 because it...

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Helmsdale

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 07'N
Longitude: 03° 38'W
Website: www.helmsdale-harbour.org.uk

In the early 19th Century almost all of the inland settlements in this part of Scotland were cleared of their inhabitants in order to make way for more profitable residents: sheep. Clearances took place right across the Highlands and Islands, but those pe...

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Heogan (Bressay)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 10'N
Longitude: 01° 09'W
Website: www.lerwick-harbour.co.uk...heogan.pdf

The piers at Heogan are owned by the port authority, but the fishmeal factory is operated by Shetland Fish Products Ltd (tel: 01595 820223).

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Herne Bay

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 22'N
Longitude: 01° 09'E

Strictly speaking Herne Bay is a satellite of the centuries old village of Herne, found on the main route to Canterbury. The town, just north of the village, started life as a haunt for smugglers, but gained popularity in the 19th century when it became a...

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Hessle Haven

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 43'N
Longitude: 00° 25'W
Website: www.waverleyshipping.co.u...-haven.asp

A small inlet close to the Humber Bridge offers repair facilities for coastal craft. Waste recycling is also undertaken and vessels call here to take away scrap materials.

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Heysham

Area: 29 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 01'N
Longitude: 02° 53'W
Website: www.portofheysham.com

Heysham is a tiny village on the edge of Morecambe Bay, North West England. A nuclear power station and ferry port are two modern points in an otherwise strongly historic place. In recent years, Heysham port has been a story of continuing expansion, in...

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Holyhead

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 18'N
Longitude: 04° 37'W
Website: www.holyheadport.com/

Holyhead is one of the UK's busiest ferry ports. There are about 8,000 conventional and fast ferry movements a year with over 500 calls per year of bulk carriers, cruise liners, coasters and large fishing vessels with countless calls of smaller fishing ve...

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Hopeman

Area: 56 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 42'N
Longitude: 03° 25'W
Website: www.moray.gov.uk/moray_st...74453.html

The village, or small town, of Hopeman, lies on a gentle ridge sloping down to the sea. It was founded as a fishing community only in 1805, and was much enlarged and the harbour improved by Admiral Duff of Drummuir who bought the lands in 1837. It has a r...

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Hound Point Terminal

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 60'N
Longitude: 03° 21'W
Website: www.forthports.co.uk/port...nd/marine/

The offshore Hound Point oil installation in the River Forth is where North Sea oil starts its journey to refineries round the world. It is operated by BP Amoco and can accept vessels up to 300,000 tonnes deadweight. Pipes run to the terminal from a s...

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Housa Voe (Papa Stour)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 19'N
Longitude: 01° 38'W

Housa Voe is the ferry terminal for the island of Paper Stour. The ferry runs from West Burrafirth on the mainland. The Norse name "Papey Stjora" meaning the big island of the Priests, was given to Papa Stour by the Vikings. This suggests that missio...

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Hughtown (St Mary's)

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 56'N
Longitude: 06° 23'W
Website: www.stmarys-harbour.co.uk/

The port of St Mary's at Hughtown is a private harbour run by the Duchy of Cornwall. Around 2,000 yachts visit each year, and harbour users also include fishing boats, local boat owners, inter island passenger launches and the vessels used for the connec...

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Humber Sea Terminal

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 40'N
Longitude: 00° 14'W
Website: www.simonports.co.uk/oper...s_hst.html

Following over £25m of investment, the Humber Sea Terminal is a major new port development for the Humber Estuary and the UK. Free from the operating constraints and added costs associated with tidal restrictions and lock gates, the Humber Sea Termina...

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Huna

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 38'N
Longitude: 03° 06'W

Virtually disused, this small remote harbour lies just three miles west of John O'Groats. Only the occasional small fishing boat now uses the shelter of the twin jetties. Directly opposite the deserted island of Stroma, visible in the distance in the ph...

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Hunter's Quay

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 57'N
Longitude: 04° 54'W
Website: www.western-ferries.co.uk/

The original stone pier was built by Robert Hunter in 1828. Villas used as holiday homes by rich Glaswegians were rapidly developed, and the village became the base of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club. A more substantial pier replaced the original in 1858. I...

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Ilfracombe

Area: 19 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 11'N
Longitude: 04° 09'W
Website: www.northdevon.gov.uk/ind...rbours.htm

“Ilfracombe, an ancient sea port and market town, and the most picturesque and fashionable bathing place on the north coast of Devon, is distant about 10 miles of Barnstaple and 5 miles of Exeter. It is built partly at the bottom and partly on the side an...

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Immingham

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 37'N
Longitude: 00° 11'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/immingham

As both a thriving port and a small town, Immingham has its own character and community. It also has a long history - a monument commemorates the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed from Immingham Creek in 1609. Immingham is one of Britain's busiest and fastes...

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Innellan

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 54'N
Longitude: 04° 57'W

(Extract from www.secretscotland.org.uk) Dating from 1850, the pier was of wooden construction and built to serve the many steamers which operated on the Firth of Clyde in Victorian times. The popularity of the village led to the pier being exte...

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Inveralligin

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 33'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

Inveralligin is a remote crofting township which lies on the north shore of Loch Torridon in Wester Ross. It has two jetties, one of which is no longer used.

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Inveraray

Area: 39 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 14'N
Longitude: 05° 04'W
Website: www.inveraraypier.com/inv...ypier.html

The original Inveraray Pier was built in 1762 and made larger in 1805 and 1836. The present pier is on the site of the former pier.

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Inverasdale

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 48'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W
Website: http://galeactionforum.co...=past&id=8

In September 2004, at a meeting of the Highland Council's Transport, Environment and Community Services Committee, it was reported that the 150-year old Inverasdale pier was "now practically disused". An application had been received to purchase the pier...

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Island Davaar

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 26'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

This jetty on the north side of Island Davaar was probably once used for supplying the nearby lighthouse. It is no longer in use.

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Isleornsay

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 08'N
Longitude: 05° 48'W

About halfway along the south east coast of Skye the island of Ornsay shelters one of the best natural harbours in southern Skye. The location was exploited from the 1700s or earlier by the MacDonalds who owned this part of Skye. By 1820 stone piers h...

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John O'Groats

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 38'N
Longitude: 03° 04'W

The name derives from Jan de Groot, one of three brothers who arrived in the area in 1496 with a commission from King James 1V to operate a ferry between the mainland and Orkney. The area is still very much a farming and crofting area. The small harbour...

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Johnshaven

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 47'N
Longitude: 02° 19'W
Website: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/...shaven.asp

In the 18th Century Johnshaven was one of the largest fishing communities in Scotland. There were 26 boats and at least 130 fishermen in 1722. The largest boats with a crew of 10 were used only for 3 months in the summer for distant cod fishing, the small...

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Kallin

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 29'N
Longitude: 07° 12'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Kallin is situated at the south east tip of Grimsay. Grimsay is about four miles long by two wide, and is aligned from north west to south east. The harbour, built in 1985, has a growing fishing fleet. The boats from Kallin fish for shellfish using creel...

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Kames

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 54'N
Longitude: 05° 14'W

There are two piers at Kames; the northern one, knoiwn as Powder Mills Pier (the nearer pier in the photo above), was built in the 1830s to serve a gunpowder works inland and an associated saltpetre works beside the pier. It appears to have been built as ...

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Keadby

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 34'N
Longitude: 00° 44'W
Website: http://pdportservices.pdp...eadby2.htm

Located on the river Trent the Port of Keadby provides high class facilities and specialist handling equipment for paper and forest products together with a dedicated steel storage terminal. The port is located in close proximity to the M180 motorway enab...

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Kennacraig

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 47'N
Longitude: 05° 29'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=38

Kennacraig Terminal has been constructed on a small island in West Loch Tarbert. It offers links to Port Ellen and Port Askaig on Islay. Improvements to the pier at Kennacraig, as well as to the pier at Port Ellen on Islay, are planned at an estimated...

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Kentallen

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 14'W
Website: www.hollytreehotel.co.uk

The Hotel's private pier is an attraction both for divers and visiting sailing craft.

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Kentra Bay

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 46'N
Longitude: 05° 52'W

Situated at the end of the B8044, three miles west of Acharacle, this jetty is used by local fishermen and other leisure users. It is a popular spot for kayakers and divers.

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Keoldale East

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 33'N
Longitude: 04° 47'W
Website: www.capewrath.org.uk/Kyle.htm

A passenger ferry operates across the Kyle of Durness, between the village of Keoldale on the eastern shore, and the end of the road from Cape Wrath on the western side.

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Keoldale West

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 33'N
Longitude: 04° 48'W
Website: www.capewrath.org.uk/Kyle.htm

A passenger ferry operates across the Kyle of Durness, between the village of Keoldale on the eastern shore, and the end of the road from Cape Wrath on the western side. From here a minibus operates, taking passengers on the eleven-mile journey across pe...

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Kerrera Slip

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 31'W
Website: www.kerrera-ferry.co.uk

Known affectionately as the 'Kerry Ferry', a small ferryboat links the island of Kerrera to the mainland. Of course, prevailing weather conditions may force the cancellation of sailings. Sailing times can be seen View details)

Kerrera Slip (mainland)

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 30'W
Website: www.kerrera-ferry.co.uk

Known affectionately as the 'Kerry Ferry', the small ferryboat runs frequently across the narrow Sound of Kerrera to the island. The mainland slipway is on the road to Gallanach, about two miles south of the centre of Oban. In summer, the ferry operates...

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Kettletoft (Sanday)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 14'N
Longitude: 02° 36'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/ke...t_pier.asp

Kettletoft grew around its fishing industry, though it never became as significant a port as Whitehall on Stronsay, which lies five miles due south across the Sanday Sound. During the herring boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s Kettletoft was a hive of...

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Keyhaven

Area: 13 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 43'N
Longitude: 01° 33'W

Keyhaven, sheltered by Hurst Spit, was a small port by the 13th century, where salt was made and exported. The salt industry continued until the early years of the 19th century, when it was overtaken by competition from Cheshire. There is a passenger ...

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Kilchattan

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

The village of Kilchattan developed as a row of fisherman's houses. Further developments included a quarry, stone pier and a lime kiln which can still be seen behind St. Blane's Villa. The stone quay was constructed in 1822 and used to export lime, tiles ...

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Kilchoan

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 42'N
Longitude: 06° 07'W
Website: www.kilchoan.blogspot.com...tty-3.html

This curving jetty protrudes into Kilchoan Bay on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. The original jetty, or slipway, is believed to date from the early 17th century. The jetty played a pivotal role in supplying the Kilchoan area. All 'imported' goods, such as co...

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Kilchoan (Mingary Pier)

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 06° 06'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=22

Kilchoan, overlooking the Sound of Mull, is the most westerly village in mainland Great Britain. Until about 1900 it was only accessible by sea. Then a road was built to link Ardnamurchan with the the rest of Scotland at Salen, 23 miles to the east. K...

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Kilcreggan

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 04° 49'W
Website: www.knockderry.u-net.com/kpier.html

Kilgreggan, on the south end of the peninsula looks across the Clyde estuary towards Gourock and Greenock. The original pier was built in 1850. This was replaced by the current pier in 1897 and is the only traditional wooden pier which is used all year ro...

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Killyleagh

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

Killyleagh (Co Down) is on the southwest shore of Strangford Lough, about 20 miles south of Belfast and 5 miles north of Downpatrick. In the Middle Ages an anchorage brought trade and prosperity to the growing town of Killyleagh. It was designated a Ma...

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Kilmaluag

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 06° 18'W

Also known as Aird slipway, this is near the end of a minor road to The Aird, from the main road at Kilmaluag, and used by a few fishing boats.

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Kincardine

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 04'N
Longitude: 03° 43'W

Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazeteer of Scotland (1882-84) described Kincardine thus: "Kincardine, a small seaport town in Tulliallan parish, SE Perthshire (detached), on low flat ground on the left or NE bank of the river Forth, 3 miles S by W of...

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Kingholm Quay

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 03'N
Longitude: 03° 36'W
Website: www.nith-navigation.co.uk

Originally part of the port of Dumfries, the quay was built in 1747. In August 2005 the 80ft beam trawler Petronella arrived at Kingholm Quay. It is said to be the largest vessel to come up the River Nith in more than half a century. The following e...

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Kingsbarns

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 18'N
Longitude: 02° 39'W

Records exist of a harbour in use as early as the 16th century. Being less than half a mile from the coast, it was natural for the residents of the village of Kingsbarns to look to the sea for their transport and to supplement their food supply. In 18...

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Kinlochmoidart

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 47'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W

The quay was built in 1796 for transporting oak and charcoal out of the area. It's now wrecked and unusable - even worse after the hurricane in January 2005. Just west of the quay is a narrow jetty which is inaccessible without a ladder, since a road ha...

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Kirkcaldy

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 06'N
Longitude: 03° 09'W

Kirkcaldy was an important harbour in the 17th century. In 1650 Cromwell launched a fierce attack killing 500 townsfolk and destroying the 50 ships berthed in the harbour. In 1834 it was recorded that Kirkdaldy had a fleet of 186 ships. More recently...

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Kirkwall

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 59'N
Longitude: 02° 58'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/kirkwall.asp

The story of Kirkwall has largely been the story of the development of its harbour. In 1811 work began on a series of harbour improvements at the north end of the town, on the site of today's harbour. These improvements have continued over the years, and ...

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Kirkwall - Hatston Pier

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 00'N
Longitude: 02° 59'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com

2003 saw the completion of deeper water port facilities a little around the bay at Hatston. Only some of the 70 cruise ships that call into Kirkwall each year could previously berth at the quayside. Others had to anchor in the bay and transfer passengers ...

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Kyle of Lochalsh

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 17'N
Longitude: 05° 42'W
Website: www.highland.gov.uk/youre...arbour.htm

Kyle Harbour, situated within the sheltered confines of Loch Alsh, is a busy deep water port (greater than 7m), which plays host to a variety of cargo, fishing, fish farming, leisure and small to medium sized cruise liners. Leisure facilities include 120...

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Kyleakin

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 16'N
Longitude: 05° 43'W
Website: www.zen98766.zen.co.uk/ha...arbour.htm

Kyleakin is located across from Kyle of Lochalsh. The narrow strait between the two is the shortest distance from the island to the mainland of Scotland. Kyleakin was once the gateway to Skye. There was a ferry service operating there, that was in existen...

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Kylerhea

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 13'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W
Website: www.skyeferry.co.uk

There has been a car ferry service crossing the Kylerhea straits since 1934. However, the closest point to the Isle of Skye has been a crossing point for hundreds of years. It is the first recorded ferry between Skye and the mainland and is mentioned by M...

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Kyles Scalpay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 52'N
Longitude: 06° 41'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

This slipway was the terminal for ferries across to the island of Scalpay. It became redundant in December 1997 when the bridge was opened.

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La Maseline (Sark)

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 25'N
Longitude: 02° 19'W

Sark is one of the largest of the Channel Islands, marked by steep cliffs and rugged natural scenery. Maseline is Sark's deep water harbour and used by the ferries from the other islands. Work started on it in 1938 and was interrupted by the German Occ...

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La Rocque

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 10'N
Longitude: 02° 01'W

No longer used, except by occasional leisure craft. This harbour is noted as the place where, in January 1781, a French force landed which eventually led to the decisive Battle of Jersey in the Royal Square in St Helier.

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Laga

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 52'W

A foot and cycle ferry operates on Mondays and Fridays from Tobermory in Mull, to Laga on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. It also calls at Drimnin pier. Wildlife and fishing...

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Lagg

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 56'N
Longitude: 05° 51'W

There used to be a cattle droving route from Lagg to the mainland at Keills, in Kintyre. The jetty was designed by Thomas Telford. There are possible plans for a ro/ro ferry (cars only) between Lagg and Keills. At present, all road traffic has to tra...

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Laide

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 51'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

Laide jetty was built in the late 19th century, and is currently owned and managed by the Highland Council. It provides the only public access to the sea in Gruinard Bay. At present, local boats moor at the jetty in the summer for sea angling trips and ...

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Lamb Holm

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 53'N
Longitude: 02° 54'W

This pier is believed to have been constructed at the same time as the Churchill Barriers (1940-1943) and may have been used to bring in equipment etc. It may also relate to the prisoner-of-war camp that existed on the island during WW2. It does not a...

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Lamigo Bay

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 32'N
Longitude: 04° 19'W

This narrow concerete pier on the east side of the bay is used by a creel fisherman. Access to the pier is by a footpath from the last house in the tiny hamlet of Lamigo.

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Lamlash

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 32'N
Longitude: 05° 07'W

Lamlash, on the Isle of Arran, is a town built in Edwardian style in a boulder-strewn bay. Boat trips operate to Holy Island off the eastern coast from here. Lamlash Bay served as an important naval anchorage during the first world war, and relics of ...

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Lamorna

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 03'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

Situated between the beautiful beach of Porthcurno and the picturesque village of Mousehole, Lamorna Cove is a wonderful, rugged, short coastline that remains privately owned. Famous in the past for its granite quarry this isolated hamlet was immortalise...

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Langstone

Area: 12 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 47'N
Longitude: 00° 59'W
Website: www.langstoneharbour.org.uk

Langstone Harbour is a large tidal bay lying between Hayling Island and Portsmouth. A narrow entrance protects the harbour from the open sea and small channels link Langstone with Portsmouth Harbour to the west and Chichester Harbour to the east. At high...

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Largs

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 47'N
Longitude: 04° 51'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=51

Largs is situated on Largs Bay 18 miles south west of Greenock. Ferries run from Largs to Millport on Great Cumbrae. A £6m construction contract was awarded to George Leslie Ltd in September 2008 to build a new pier; the project is due for completion ...

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Larne

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 48'W
Website: www.portoflarne.co.uk

Larne is steeped in maritime history, mainly because its potential as a safe haven for ships was recognised in ancient times. The first written reference occurred at the time of the Roman Empire around 205BC when it was reported by Emperor Serverus that ...

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Latheronwheel

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 16'N
Longitude: 03° 22'W

The harbour was built about 1840 and a simple lighthouse was constructed on the southern headland. This building was hexagonal, although according to a photograph taken in 1925 it became a rectangular two-storey building, also know as Latheronwheel Castl...

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Laugharne

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 45'N
Longitude: 04° 27'W

It was the foundation of an Anglo-Norman castle by 1170 that led to the development of a town at Laugharne. A settlement probably grew outside the castle soon after its foundation, and around the small inlet which became a port. Laugharne was once a bu...

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Laxey

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 14'N
Longitude: 04° 22'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/LaxeyPort.asp

A small port on the east coast half way between Douglas and Ramsey. The harbour was built in the mid 1800s to service the lucrative mining business but is now used by a small number of leisure craft and inshore fishing vessels. Today Laxey is largely a...

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Laxo (Flugarth)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 21'N
Longitude: 01° 11'W

Laxo lies on the east mainland of Shetland. A roll-on roll-off car-passenger ferry with an open car deck runs from the Flugarth Terminal to Symbister on the Island of Whalsay, to the east of the mainland.

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Leigh-on-Sea

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 32'N
Longitude: 00° 40'E

The first written mention of Leigh-on-Sea is in the Domesday Book, where it is referred to as Legra. It is thought that earlier the Saxons referred to it simply as a ‘lee’, or forest clearing. Having begun as a fishing village, Leigh flourished from t...

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Liddesdale

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

This slipway and jetty in Loch Sunart is used by a fish farm and also for the export of forestry products.

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Lindisfarne

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 01° 48'W

Holy Island harbour is characterised world-wide by pictures of the large, upturned fishing boats lining the beach. Now no longer seaworthy and used as work sheds for the small remaining seagoing fraternity, many of these boats were part of one of the larg...

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Littlehampton

Area: 11 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 48'N
Longitude: 00° 29'W
Website: www.littlehampton.org.uk

Situated between Shoreham Harbour and Portsmouth Harbour, Littlehampton has limited facilities for the commercial ship owner. Although the main imports are sea-dredged aggregates and road stone, cargoes of opportunity are able to be accepted on occasions...

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Llanddulas

Area: 27 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 17'N
Longitude: 03° 39'W
Website: www.cemex.co.uk

There are two jetties from the quarry, one of which, owned by Hanson Aggregates, is no longer in use. The western jetty, known as Raynes Jetty, pictured above, is owned by Cemex. It is used to export limestone aggregates directly from Raynes Quarry. A...

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Llanelli

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 40'N
Longitude: 04° 10'W

In 1997 the Llanelli Harbour Revision Order established Carmarthenshire County Council as the harbour authority for Llanelli Harbour and transferred to the Council the undertaking of the former Llanelly Harbour Trust, together with all statutory functions...

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Llangrannog

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 10'N
Longitude: 04° 28'W

Before the advent of the railways and improved road facilities, the mountains and moorlands of Central and West Wales acted as a natural barrier to movement from the east, and its presence gave sea transport a greater value to the inhabitants of the weste...

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Loch Caroy

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 22'N
Longitude: 06° 29'W

Loch Caroy is a deep inlet off Loch Bracadale, on the west coast of Skye. The slipway is used by a number of small fishing vessels.

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Loch Ceann Dibig

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 52'N
Longitude: 06° 47'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Located in the tiny village of Miabhaig, this slipway is used mainly by leisure craft.

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Loch Clash

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 27'N
Longitude: 05° 04'W

The original Kinlochbervie pier was at Loch Clash, on the north side of the town and remained there until the early 1970s when the present harbour at Loch Bervie was developed. The salmon farming facilities in Loch Clash are serviced from the pier. Ot...

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Loch Ewe (NATO refuelling jetty)

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 49'N
Longitude: 05° 34'W

Loch Ewe, the only north-facing loch in Scotland, is situated in Wester Ross not far from Gairloch. Loch Ewe has an interesting history; during World War 2 it was a convoy collecting point for the Arctic convoys to Russia. These convoys provided vital sup...

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Loch Laxford

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 01'W

This jetty is seldom used and is in a generally poor condition. However an adjacent boathouse is kept locked and is in good condition. It is situated immediately adjacent to the A838 as it curves northwards towards Rhiconich.

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Lochailort

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W

There are two small jetties on the south side of Loch Ailort, near Inverlochailort. This Council-owned one is used by dinghies to reach offshore moorings. The 'Jacobite' steam train from Fort William to Mallaig passes along the far side of the loch and i...

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Lochaline

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 32'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=24

There are two piers at Lochaline. A ferry service runs between the new pier at Lochaline and Fishnish (Mull). The ferry is the MV Loch Fyne, built in Port Glasgow in 1991. It can accommodate 36 cars and 150 passengers, and while it has passenger faciliti...

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Lochboisdale

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 09'N
Longitude: 07° 17'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Little seems to have happened here until the herring boom in the latter half of the 1800s, when Lochboisdale developed as an important fishing station. The most significant development was the building here of a steamer pier in 1880, and two years later i...

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Lochgilphead

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 01'N
Longitude: 05° 26'W

Until the 19th century Lochgilphead was a small fishing village lying, as the name suggests, at the head of Loch Gilp, a short sea-loch leading north west from Loch Fyne. Lochgilphead's position became more important with the opening of the Crinan Canal i...

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Lochmaddy

Area: 47 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 36'N
Longitude: 07° 09'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Lochmaddy Pier, North Uist, is the port for the ferry link to Uig, Skye. The ferry berth on the south side of the pier is 115 metres long, incorporating a linkspan at the inner end capable of 120 tonnes loading. The depths alongside the south berth vary...

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Lochranza

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 16'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=40

Lochranza is situated on the northern tip of the island of Arran, 13 miles north west of Brodick, the capital of Arran. Robert the Bruce landed here from Ireland in 1306. Lochranza has a regular ferry service throughout the summer, crossing to Claonaig...

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Long Craig

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 23'W
Website: www.longcraig.org.uk/

The pier is mainly used by South Queensferry Sea Scouts. The pier is also open to the public.

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Loth (Sanday)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 12'N
Longitude: 02° 42'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/lo...rminal.asp

The new generation of car ferries commenced in the early 1990s from a roll-on roll-off pier at Loth near Sour Ness at the southern tip of Sanday.

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Lower Fishguard (Cwm)

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 59'N
Longitude: 04° 57'W

The name Fishguard can be roughly translated as The Fish Yard, an obvious indication of its industrious past. In Welsh it is simply Abergwaun or Mouth Of The River. The town is divided into Upper and Lower Fishguard. The lower town surrounds a pictures...

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Lower Largo

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 02° 56'W
Website: http://fyca.sbmyc.com/Pub...singP9.htm

Lower Largo is the birth place of Alexander Selkirk, the castaway sailor whose adventures were immortalised in the story of Robinson Crusoe. It was here the once thriving herring fishing industry, with its net houses and net factory, was established more ...

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Ludag

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 06'N
Longitude: 07° 18'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

At Ludag is a now bypassed pier that was used by the old car ferry to Eriskay. This has now been replaced by a causeway. The pier is still used by local fishermen.

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Macduff

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 02° 30'W
Website: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/...acduff.asp

The foundations for the modern facility were put in place by the Duff family and James, Second Earl of Fife, in particular. Construction commenced in the 1770's. The first basin was created in 1783 and by 1791 there were two basins, east and west, the lat...

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Magheramorne

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 49'N
Longitude: 05° 46'W

Magheramorne is a small village about five miles south of Larne on the western shore of Larne Lough. It is unremarkable except that Blue Circle Cement Company had a quarry here. Coasters came and went to their tidal berth at a steady rate importing and ...

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Maidens

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 20'N
Longitude: 04° 47'W
Website: www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk...n/port.htm

Maidens is a fishing village at the southern end of Maidenhead Bay two miles north of Turnberry and five miles west of Maybole. The village retains an old-world air of peace and tranquility and is a favourite spot for artists and camera enthusiasts. It wa...

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Maldon

Area: 8 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 44'N
Longitude: 00° 41'E

It was where the River Blackwater began to widen into the estuary that Maldon's harbour facilities were established at a detached suburb called the Hythe. The word 'Hythe' is an old Saxon word and roughly translated means landing place. The Hythe, Hythe ...

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Mallaig

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 59'N
Longitude: 05° 49'W

Mallaig is a major west coast fishing port and the focus for a network of ferry services to Skye, to the Small Isles, and to the Knoydart peninsula. It was the coming of the railway in 1901 together with the building of the steamer pier that led to the...

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Mallaigmore

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 01'N
Longitude: 05° 47'W



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Manchester (Ship Canal)

Area: 28 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 29'N
Longitude: 02° 19'W
Website: www.shipcanal.co.uk/manch...hip-canal/

Formally opened by Queen Victoria in May 1894 amidst scenes of great ceremony and popular enthusiasm, the 'Big Ditch' as it was affectionately known, brought deep sea shipping all the way to Manchester and lead to the creation of the thriving industrial c...

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Marazion

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 07'N
Longitude: 05° 28'W

The harbour, known locally as 'Top Tieb', was built in the late 1920s to provide a landing place for boats to and from St Michael's Mount. But the entrance is tricky and narrow and the harbour arm is only accessible an hour or two either side of high wat...

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Marchwood

Area: 13 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 52'N
Longitude: 01° 24'W
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...319916.stm

In 1943 the little-known port of Marchwood was born on the far side of Southampton Water, its purpose to ferry equipment and men to the Normandy beaches the following year. With the coming of peace in 1945 a continuing military was needed to support the...

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Margate

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 01° 25'E

Margate was once a busy commercial port with every kind of commodity brought into the town by sea. There has been a harbour here for over 700 years and because of the sailing hoys regularly plying their trade from London, Margate developed into the first...

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Martin's Haven

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 44'N
Longitude: 05° 14'W

A seasonal passenger ferry - the Dale Princess - operates from here to Skomer Island, but is dependant on fine weather as the channel between the island and the mainland can be very rough.

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Maryfield (Bressay)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 09'N
Longitude: 01° 07'W

The ferry arrives on Bressay near the 19th century house and old pier at Maryfield. Next to the ferry terminal car park is the Bressay Heritage Centre which houses fascinating seasonal exhibitions on the culture, history and natural heritage of the island...

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Maryport

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 42'N
Longitude: 03° 29'W
Website: www.m-h-a.co.uk

This small harbour on the Cumbrian coast boasts 2000 years of history. When the Romans came to what is now Maryport they named it Alauna, and used the harbour for supplying the large fort above the town, the outline of which remains. Once a major port...

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Meanish (Loch Pooltiel)

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 27'N
Longitude: 06° 44'W

Loch Pooltiel is a small inlet on the north west of Skye. Before the advent of good roads, coastal puffers docked at the pier carrying coal and supplies. For centuries, cattle boats from North Uist connected here with a drover's track - one of three Skye ...

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Menai Bridge

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 14'N
Longitude: 04° 09'W
Website: www.anglesey.gov.uk/engli...artime.htm

The pier is often used for 'Round-Anglesey' cruises; the Balmoral is also an occasional visitor.

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Mevagissey

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 15'N
Longitude: 04° 47'W
Website: www.mevagisseyharbour.co.uk

The fishing village of Mevagissey is named after a 6th century Irish missionary. Its labyrinth of tiny streets twist and turn inexorably towards the twin harbours which are its nerve centre, a place to watch the fisherman land their catch and mend their ...

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Miavaig

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 11'N
Longitude: 06° 57'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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Milford Haven

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 03'W
Website: www.mhpa.co.uk/

As the fifth largest port in the UK, and set in the heart of the only Coastal National Park in Great Britain, Milford Haven Port Authority is responsible for the biggest port in Wales, and one of the most prominent on the West Coast. Milford Haven is a...

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Millbay Docks (Plymouth)

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 22'N
Longitude: 04° 09'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...s/plym.htm

Millbay Docks comprises a tidal basin with 13 ha of water situated within the impressive natural harbour known as Plymouth Sound. From here ferries operate to Western France and the Iberian peninsula. There are good cargo-handling facilities including...

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Millport (Cumbrae)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 44'N
Longitude: 04° 55'W

Only ten minutes by boat from Largs, Great Cumbrae is Scotland's most accessible island with a sheltered southerly aspect; Millport being its point of access. In times gone by smuggling was rife and well supported by the islanders. Today the bay is f...

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Minehead

Area: 20 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 12'N
Longitude: 03° 27'W
Website: www.westsomersetonline.go...289&area=5

The first written mention of Minehead is in the Domesday Book of 1087. ‘Minehead’ is Celtic, similar in origin to the Welsh mynydd (mountain), reflecting the prominence of North Hill which shelters the settlement at its base, immediately next to the sea...

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Moaness (Hoy)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 55'N
Longitude: 03° 19'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/mo...s_pier.asp

A passenger ferry (the mv Graemsay) sails between Stromness and Moaness Pier in the north of Hoy three times a day Monday to Friday and twice on Friday evenings; twice daily Saturday and Sunday. This vessel also calls at Graemsay. There's a reduced winter...

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Moclett (Papa Westray)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 20'N
Longitude: 02° 53'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/mo...t_pier.asp

Most of Orkney's northern islands benefit from excellent services provided by the three main car ferries operating from Kirkwall. Papa Westray is less fortunate, only receiving visits from the Earl Sigurd or Earl Thorfinn twice a week. And b...

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Morston Quay

Area: 6 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 57'N
Longitude: 00° 59'E

A stony track leading away from the road signposted Morston Quay takes you to the enchanting, wide open spaces of Morston's marshes. Varied saltmarsh vegetation edge the muddy creeks and pools where swans idle their time away. Mud paths snake through the ...

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Mousa

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 00'N
Longitude: 01° 11'W
Website: www.mousaboattrips.co.uk/...ochure.pdf

Mousa measures a little under two miles in length and almost a mile at its widest point. It is easily accessible from Sandwick as it is barely a mile offshore. Although it is a single island it does have a distinct "waist" and is subdivided into North Isl...

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Naast

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 47'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W

This jetty was built in WW2 for resupplying Russian Convoy ships. It appears to be constructed of sandbags, or bags of cement. It is no longer used.

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Nairn

Area: 56 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 35'N
Longitude: 03° 52'W

Formerly a community of fishermen and farmers, Nairn has developed into a traditional seaside town, with its sandy East Beach and range of tourist facilities. The original harbour, constructed to the design of Thomas Telford in 1821 and once home to a bus...

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Neap House

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 36'N
Longitude: 00° 41'W

Neap House Wharf is part of the adjacent Grove Wharf complex, handling a wide range of cargoes on the River Trent.

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Nether Lochaber

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 43'N
Longitude: 05° 13'W
Website: www.lochabertransport.org...ferry.html

The eastern slipway of the Corran Ferry which crosses Loch Linnhe, some nine miles south of Fort William, at the Corran Narrows, to Ardgour and is known as Nether Lochaber. It is reasonably undistinguished, providing a car park and some public toilets, th...

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New Holland (Old Ferry Terminal)

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 42'N
Longitude: 00° 19'W
Website: www.newhollandbulkservices.co.uk

Before 1803 there wasn't even a New Holland, but just the creek somewhat opposite Hull on the south bank of the Humber. A small ferry service started from the creek in 1825, in fact a front for smuggling goods, especially gin, and it was Hollands gin tha...

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New Holland Dock

Area: 4 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 41'N
Longitude: 00° 19'W

New Holland Dock was formerly owned by British Rail, but was sold to the Howarth Timber Group in 1983.

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New Quay

Area: 24 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 12'N
Longitude: 04° 20'W
Website: www.new-quay.com/harbour.htm

The town of New Quay overlooks a natural harbour which is well protected except from the north wind. At the end of the 17th century a ‘new quay’ of wood and stone was built to protect the harbour from the westerly winds. The town grew slowly, probably as ...

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Newburgh (River Tay)

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 21'N
Longitude: 03° 13'W

Newburgh is built on the south bank of the River Tay opposite Mugdrum Island where the navigable channel of South Deep runs right along the riverbank. By the mid 1800s Newburgh harbour, then comprising a quay running along the riverside and four jettie...

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Newburgh (River Ythan)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 20'N
Longitude: 01° 60'W

The village of Newburgh was already a busy port in the 15th Century, (and probably long before that), dealing mainly in timber and wool. One of its main advantages to maritime traders was the cheap dues compared to Aberdeen. This so incensed the Aberdeen ...

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Newcastle

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 12'N
Longitude: 05° 52'W

Newcastle is situated on the western shore of Dundrum Bay, at the foot of Slieve Donard, the highest of the Mourne Mountains. In the 1840s Lord Annesley created a new pier here primarily to function as a loading point for the famous Mourne granite, wh...

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Newhaven (England)

Area: 11 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 47'N
Longitude: 00° 02'E
Website: www.newhavenportauthority.co.uk

Situated at the mouth of the River Ouse in East Sussex, the entrance to Newhaven's harbour lies between two piers, protected from the prevailing wind by a substantial breakwater to the west. Established as the settlement of "Meeching" by the Saxons, th...

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Newhaven (Scotland)

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 59'N
Longitude: 03° 12'W

At the western extremity of Leith Docks is Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh's traditional fish market. Newhaven, still a distinctive community in the seafaring tradition, can trace its history back to 1504. Newhaven retains some of the characteristics of a fis...

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Newport (South Wales)

Area: 21 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 34'N
Longitude: 02° 59'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...ewport.htm

Newport, the most easterly of ABP’s South Wales ports, is ideally located to serve the UK’s main industrial and commercial areas. The port is able to handle a wide range of traffics including fresh produce, agribulks, vehicles, steel, solid fuel, minerals...

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Newport-on-Tay

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 26'N
Longitude: 02° 55'W

The pier was built by Thomas Telford in 1823 to serve the steamboats that plied across the River Tay to Dundee. The pier buildings closed in 1966, when the Tay Road Bridge opened, but the original frontage of the ferry terminal remains. It is now used as...

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Newquay

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

The municipal port of Newquay has a small fleet of fishing vessels and is a base of angling, tripping and leisure craft in the summer season. It has an ancient history: A jetty existed at Towyn Blystry since before the 14th century. This was situated ...

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North Haven (Fair Isle)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 32'N
Longitude: 01° 36'W
Website: http://content.shetland.g...irisle.htm

Only in the late 20th century did the island acquire a safe summer harbour, at North Haven. Despite the building of a breakwater and new pier, the exposed situation means that the ferry has to be hauled out of the water on a cradle between trips, except ...

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Nouster (North Ronaldsay)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 21'N
Longitude: 02° 26'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/no...r_pier.asp

The New Pier was built in 1970. The former pier can be seen behind the new pier in the photo above. The steamer called here once a week. Years before it was used by local traders using sailing ships such as the Lebanon. Nowadays it is used by loc...

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Nullagh

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 38'W

Nullagh Quay used to be part of the Delamont Estate. It is used during the summer months when boat trips arrive from Strangford and Portaferry. At other times leisure and fishing craft use the quay, which is accessible at most states of the tide. Access ...

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Oban Ferry Terminal

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 24'N
Longitude: 05° 28'W

Oban is a busy major fishing port and ferry terminal with services to the Isle of Iona, Mull, Staffa, Colonsay, Lismore and the seabird colonies of the Treshnish Isles - also ferry sailings to the Outer Hebrides. It is also popular with visiting yachtsmen...

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Oban North Pier

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 28'W
Website: www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/co...ices/piers

The 1861 census shows us that before the coming of the railway in the 1890s, Oban was a small fishing village with a population of just 600. Oban has four piers: North pier, South Pier, Railway pier and Lighthouse pier. The Council-owned North Pier i...

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Oddsta (Fetlar)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 37'N
Longitude: 00° 55'W

Oddsta, on the fertile island of Fetlar, is the ferry terminal for the Shetland Isles 'Bluemull' car ferry service from Gutcher (Yell) and Belmont (Unst).

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Ollaberry

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 30'N
Longitude: 01° 21'W

Ollaberry is at the heart of the little good farmland that exists on Northmavine and is one of the main centres of population in the area. It is also home to an attractive church and churchyard next to the pier.

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Orosay

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 08'N
Longitude: 07° 24'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

A small uninhabited island off the SW coast of South Uist. The jetty is used by local fishermen. A causeway has now been built connecting the island to the mainland.

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Orsay

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 06° 31'W



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Padstow

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 33'N
Longitude: 04° 56'W
Website: www.padstow-harbour.co.uk

Padstow’s importance has been historically variable, depending until the nineteenth century on the amount of trade with Ireland. Possibly in the period after the departure of the Romans the level of trade was significant, and the town claims its origin f...

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Paignton

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 26'N
Longitude: 03° 33'W
Website: www.torbay.gov.uk/index/l...arbour.htm

Paignton Harbour nestles on the western shores of Tor Bay situated midway between Torquay and Brixham harbours. Its understated beauty and authentic ‘fishing haven’ feel are often overlooked by visitors to the area and even some locals. The harbour wa...

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Palnackie

Area: 34 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 03° 52'W

Palnackie (Barlochan) Basin is now the only commercially-operating part of the Port of Dalbeattie. Efforts were made in the 1800s to excavate the present basin where the mouth of a stream entered the Urr, at a point where the Urr River might be expected t...

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Par

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 20'N
Longitude: 04° 42'W

Par harbour was built by a local entrepreneur J T Treffry who wanted it to export the copper from his mine. In 1829 work began on the site of a small cove called Porth at the western end of this sandbank, and a breakwater was built along the line of a ree...

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Penarth

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 25'N
Longitude: 03° 09'W
Website: www.crestnicholsonmarinas...enarth.htm

A seaport in Glamorganshire, Wales, picturesquely situated on rising ground on the south side of the mouth of the Ely opposite Cardiff. The place derives its name from two Welsh words, “ pen,” a head, and “ garth,” an enclosure. Penarth was a small and un...

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Penclawdd

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 39'N
Longitude: 04° 06'W

(Extracted from EnjoyGower.com) Up until the end of the 19th century, Penclawdd was a flourishing sea port, with several coal mines, and tinplate, coppe...

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Pennan

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 40'N
Longitude: 02° 16'W

At the east end of Pennan lies its harbour. These days it is still used by a couple of fishing vessels, but otherwise its life revolves around leisure craft. Today's harbour is the latest in a succession over the years. The first harbour was built here in...

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Pensarn

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 49'N
Longitude: 04° 06'W

At the mouth of the Artro Estuary is Pensarn Harbour, of medieval origin and possibly earlier. The harbour is used mainly by the Christian Mountain Centre (CMC), a residential outdoor r...

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Pentewan

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 17'N
Longitude: 04° 47'W
Website: www.irishseashipping.com/...160205.htm

Fishing vessels had been using Pentewan as a haven since the 16th century. By 1744 a small harbour had been built by the Hawkins family, but by 1800 this had fallen into disrepair. In 1818, it was agreed to rebuild the harbour. By this time, china clay...

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Penzance

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 07'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W
Website: www.netpz.co.uk/penzance-harbour/

The ancient market town of Penzance is the Capital of the far west of Cornwall and is set in Mounts Bay, a body of water dominated by St. Michael's Mount, located just 10 miles from Land's End. Named "Pen Sans" in the ancient Cornish language, meaning ...

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Peterhead

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 30'N
Longitude: 01° 46'W
Website: www.peterheadport.co.uk/

Peterhead is home to the UK's number one - and one of Europe's largest - white-fish ports, with 2,400 metres of berthing with ample depth of water to accommodate very large vessels. The port provides the North East of Scotland's best facilities and is ...

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Pierowall (Westray)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 19'N
Longitude: 02° 58'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/pi...arbour.asp

Pierowall once had four piers, but the only one with the depth of water needed for the steamers of the early 1900s was Gill Pier on the north side of the mouth of the Bay of Pierowall. In more modern times, Rapness Pier at the foot of Westray has take...

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Place Creek

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 08'N
Longitude: 05° 00'W
Website: www.kingharryscornwall.co...lace_ferry

A foot passenger ferry operates seven days a week between Easter and October, between St Mawes and Place Creek. The ferry makes up part of the South West Coast Path, providing access to the Roseland Peninsula. At most tides the ferry is able to land o...

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Plas Newydd

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 12'N
Longitude: 04° 13'W



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Pol nan Crann

Area: 46 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 27'N
Longitude: 07° 24'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Pol nan Crann (or Poll na Crann) is the only facility on the West Coast of Benbecula which is used by fishing vessels. The jetty is used by up to 6 fishing boats which land lobster, crab and crawfish. A project funded jointly by the Scottish Executiv...

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Polruan

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 19'N
Longitude: 04° 36'W

Polruan, situated directly opposite Fowey across the river, has its own small quay, from where a passenger ferry operates throughout the year to Fowey. It is operated by the Polruan Ferry Co. Ltd, tel: 01726 870232. Polruan is an ancient fishing villa...

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Port Appin

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 33'N
Longitude: 05° 24'W
Website: www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/co...ices/piers

A passenger ferry, the MV Lismore, operates between Port Appin and Point which is in the north end of the island of Lismore. The service is operated by Argyll and Bute Council and the journey time is approximately 10 minutes. The maximum number of...

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Port Askaig

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 50'N
Longitude: 06° 06'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=32

Port Askaig is one of the two gateways to Islay. Ships from West Loch Tarbert on Kintyre have called here since the 1700s and it was the destination of a steamer service from Glasgow as early as 1825. Port Askaig is also home to the Islay Lifeboat, whose ...

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Port Bannatyne

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

Port Bannatyne was originally known as Kamesburgh. In 1801 the Old Quay was constructed and it provided accommodation for the regular steamers that plied the Clyde during the mid 1800s. It is now derelict (see last two images in 'More Photos'). The sto...

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Port Carlisle

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 57'N
Longitude: 03° 11'W

A mile from Bowness are the remains of the 19th century harbour from which Woodrow Wilson's wife originally emigrated to America. You can still see the old docking quay with its great sandstone block wall. The dock itself still has the silted up lock entr...

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Port Charlotte

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 43'N
Longitude: 06° 22'W

Port Charlotte is without doubt the most charming of Islay's villages, with rows of well-kept, whitewashed cottages stretched along the wide bay. It was founded by the prolific Walter Frederick Campbell, in 1828, and named after the other important woman ...

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Port Edgar

Area: 60 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 60'N
Longitude: 03° 25'W
Website: www.portedgar.co.uk/

Port Edgar is a large watersports centre and marina with over 300 berths. It is a former first world war destroyer base, known as HMS Lochinvar. There is a variety of courses available for the novice sailor or canoeist and a wide range of options for ...

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Port Gaverne

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 36'N
Longitude: 04° 49'W

In the 19th century Port Gaverne was a slate, coal and limestone handling port. Shipbuilding also took place here. Some old buildings on the quay, which was once used to export slate from the nearby Delabole slate quarry, have all been converted into ho...

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Port Glasgow

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 56'N
Longitude: 04° 41'W

In 1667 the town council of Glasgow purchased land for the construction of a harbour and breakwater. This became Glasgow's first deep-water port and the town of Newark became known as Port Glasgow. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Port Glasgow becam...

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Port Gorey (Sark)

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 24'N
Longitude: 02° 23'W

It was from here that silver ore was loaded on to ships back in 1835 when the silver mine employed up to 80 Sarkese and Cornish workers. There is a small stone pier which is popular with swimmers.

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Port Grant (Strathy Head)

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 34'N
Longitude: 04° 00'W

The present jetty was built in 1912 and is used for salmon fishing. A 'Blondin' line apparatus is used for hauling baskets to the top of the cliff. The jetty was formerly owned by the Highland Council.

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Port Isaac

Area: 19 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 35'N
Longitude: 04° 49'W

Port Isaac is an old unspoilt fishing village, on the coast of North Cornwall. From the Middle Ages until the middle of the 19th century, Port Isaac was a busy port handling various imports and exports, including stone, coal, timber and pottery. After th...

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Port Logan

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 42'N
Longitude: 04° 56'W

The small village of Port Logan south of Ardwell at one time competed with Portpatrick for the Irish sailings. Today its strong sea wall creates a little haven for fishing boats and pleasure craft. The village cottages sit, peculiarly, behind a raised roa...

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Port Mulgrave

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 31'N
Longitude: 00° 42'W

The tiny hamlet of Port Mulgrave, created in the 1850s, overlooks the scars (rock outcrops) of the shore. Port Mulgrave owes its existence to the ironstone industry. It was a thriving community in the late 1800s when locally mined ironstone was shipped fr...

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Port Ramsay (Lismore)

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 33'N
Longitude: 05° 27'W

The hamlet of Port Ramsay at the north end of the island of Lismore was established in the early 19th century to house workers in the local lime-burning industry. Lime-burning was carried out here until the outbreak of the First World War. The rough st...

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Port St Mary

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 04'N
Longitude: 04° 44'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/PortStMaryPort.asp

Port St Mary is a classic small harbour in a beautiful setting which is the hub of the Isle of Man’s yachting activities and the centre for the majority of competitive sailing.

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Port Talbot

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 35'N
Longitude: 03° 48'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...s/port.htm

Port Talbot is a harbour in Swansea Bay 1 mile from Aberavon which was formerly the port, but by an act in 1836 it was improved and underwent a name change. The channel of entrance is formed by the river Avon, which now runs into the sea 1¼ miles NW...

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Port William

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 45'N
Longitude: 04° 34'W
Website: www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.a...74#William

Man has been active on the shores around Port William for the last 6,000 years. There is evidence of a Mesolithic site to the south of the Port William signs of habitation and flints to the north. There are standing stones at Drumtroddan, just behind Port...

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Portachoillan

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 46'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W

Passengers used to be rowed across to Ardpatrick from this pier.

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Portaferry

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

Portaferry and Strangford are sited one to the north-east, the other to the south-west, of the narrow channel, seven miles long, that joins Strangford Lough to the Irish Sea. The slipways of the two villages are a little over half a mile apart by water; b...

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Portaleen

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 12'N
Longitude: 06° 04'W

The small harbour and salmon fishery of Portaleen lies under the east side of Torr Head, sheltered from prevailing winds. The tides around Torr Head are particularly treacherous - on a still day when a flood tide is running it roars with the sound of a f...

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Portavadie

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 18'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=44

Portavadie lies on the east coast of Loch Fyne in Argyll and Bute. Once the site for an oil construction yard developed in the early days of North Sea oil exploration, the yard never got into production. The former construction yard has now been conv...

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Portavogie

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 27'N
Longitude: 05° 26'W
Website: www.nifha.fsnet.co.uk

Portavogie derives its name from Port an Bhogaigh, which translated means 'harbour of the bog'! This quiet fishing village is the second largest fishing port after Kilkeel and the fleet of trawlers provides a fascinating sight with daily comings and goin...

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Portballintrae

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 13'N
Longitude: 06° 30'W
Website: www.colerainebc.gov.uk/show.php?id=248

Portballintrae is situated at the mouth of the River Bush in County Antrim, adjacent to the Giant's Causeway. This small sheltered harbour is home port to several local fishermen. In 1967/68 artefacts excavated from the wreck of the Girona from the...

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Portbradden

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 13'N
Longitude: 06° 23'W

Portbradden is located under the cliff at the western end of Whitepark Bay. The name means 'port of the Salmon' and the Salmon fishery still exists.

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Porth Dinllaen

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 56'N
Longitude: 04° 33'W

Porth Dinllaen is a hamlet situated on the western end of the beaches of Nefyn. Beautiful views, a sandy beach and the popular beach front pub - the Ty Coch Inn - make this a pleasant place to visit. Porth Dinllaen is probably the best harbour along th...

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Porthcawl

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 28'N
Longitude: 03° 41'W

The historic harbour with its old Lighthouse, Watchtower and Lifeboat Station used to be a busy exporting port and fishing harbour before the huge docks at Cardiff, Barry, Port Talbot and Swansea eclipsed them in size and capabilities. In the 19th century...

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Porthclais

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 16'W



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Porthgain

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 56'N
Longitude: 05° 10'W

Porthgain is a Welsh word meaning "Chisel Port”. The harbour was used for exporting road stone, slate and bricks and the old brickworks and stone bins still remain. The thirteen brick shipments out of here in 1931 were the last. The large slate roofed, s...

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Porthmadog

Area: 25 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 55'N
Longitude: 04° 07'W

Porthmadog is a busy town situated on the borders of Snowdonia and the Llyn Peninsula on the Glaslyn Estuary. Until 1974 this town was known as Portmadoc after William A Maddocks who built the ‘Cob’ embankment in 1811. The present harbour was constructe...

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Portishead

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 29'N
Longitude: 02° 46'W
Website: www.portishead.gov.uk/new.../docks.htm

Portishead Dock was opened in the mid-1800s. During its early commercial life, the Dock supported the granary, a flour mill and a timber wharf, and there was a petroleum storage works located there. In 1926 work commenced on a Power Station for the Bristo...

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Portland

Area: 15 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 34'N
Longitude: 02° 26'W
Website: www.portland-port.co.uk

For centuries sailing ships had sheltered in Portland from westerly gales in the lee of the great sweep of Chesil Beach. In 1844 Parliament gave its approval for enclosing the bay as a harbour of refuge, and Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, laid...

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Portmahomack

Area: 55 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 50'N
Longitude: 03° 49'W

Portmahomack, on the Tarbat Ness Peninsula, known locally as "The Port", is a former fishing village, about 10 miles east of Tain. The harbour was designed by Thomas Telford early in the 19th century. In days gone by the harbour would have been ...

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Portnacroish

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 34'N
Longitude: 05° 23'W
Website: www.castlestalker.com/wp/about

This little-used concrete jetty was built as recently as the late 1960s. It is still used occasionally by fishing boats, as well as for visits to the castle during the summer. The railway track visible in the photo above extends out into the loch and i...

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Portnaguran

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 15'N
Longitude: 06° 10'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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Portnahaven

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 06° 30'W

Portnahaven lies at the south-western tip of the Rhinns of Islay, the peninsula that wraps around the north side of Loch Indaal. Orsay and its smaller neighbouring island of Eilean Mhic Coinnich shelter the harbour of Portnahaven from the weather comi...

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Portnalong

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 19'N
Longitude: 06° 24'W

The village of Portnalong was founded by crofters from Lewis and Harris in 1921. The pier served as a refuelling point for allied shipping during World War II. Situated at the end of the B8009 road to Portnalong, the pier is used by a number of small f...

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Portnancon

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 30'N
Longitude: 04° 41'W

This quay is situated on the western bank of Loch Eriboll at the end of a minor road leading off the A838 road. It used to be the western terminus of the ferry service across the Loch, from Ard Neakie. The former Custom House is now a private View details)

Portpatrick

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 06'W

In the 17th Century a royal warrant was granted to the laird of Dunskey enabling him to restrict voyages between Galloway and Ards to the ports of Portpatrick and Donaghadee and during this time Irish cattle, mail, passengers and soldiers were ferried bac...

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Portreath

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 14'N
Longitude: 05° 18'W
Website: http://portreath-harbour.org.uk/

Portreath is a small drying harbour now used by forty local fishing, diving and pleasure boats and occasionally by visitors cruising along the North Cornwall Coast. It is the only harbour between Padstow and Hayle, but even so should be regarded with grea...

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Portscatho

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 10'N
Longitude: 04° 57'W
Website: www.portoftruro.co.uk/htm...f.shtml#15

The tiny fishing port of Portscatho is situated on the eastern side of the Roseland peninsula. It is run from Truro by Carrick District Council.

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Portskerra

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 34'N
Longitude: 03° 55'W

The herring fishing lasted until 1948, but the last Portskerra fishing boat was not sold off until the 1970s. Portskerra has always been a fishing community, and close to its pier is the 'Drowning Memorial'. This monument commemorates the many fishermen f...

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Portstewart

Area: 33 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 09'N
Longitude: 06° 44'W
Website: www.colerainebc.gov.uk/show.php?id=248

Portstewart, famous for its long sandy strand and harbour, is the second largest resort on the north coast. Portstewart serves as the resident port for the pilot's vessel which guides cargo ships into the River Bann on its course up the winding tidal stre...

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Quay Hill

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 25'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

This is one of the few remaining quays in Strangford Lough that is still in regular use. An unmarked public road from the A22 a mile and a half north of Killyleagh leads directly to the quay.

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Ramsey

Area: 30 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 19'N
Longitude: 04° 22'W
Website: www.gov.im/harbours/RamseyPort.asp

During the middle of the 19th century it was Ramsey that led the way in shipbuilding. The very first oil tanker, or ship designed to carry bulk oil, was built in the Ramsey shipyard. She was called "The Jane" and there are records of her on passage to Ram...

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Ramsgate

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 20'N
Longitude: 01° 26'E
Website: www.portoframsgate.co.uk

Ramsgate harbour was originally built as a port of refuge for vessels sheltering from stormy weather. In 1821 the people of Ramsgate gave King George IV such a loyal welcome that he gave Ramsgate Harbour its unique title of “The Royal Harbour”. It has...

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Ramsholt

Area: 7 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 01'N
Longitude: 01° 22'E

Ramsholt was once a flourishing village, being the first landing on the north side of the River Deben after Bawdsey. The river was an important route for the area, carrying a wide variety of goods to and from the barge quays scattered along the banks. Sai...

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Rapness (Westray)

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 15'N
Longitude: 02° 51'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/ra...rminal.asp

There is a car ferry service from Kirkwall to Rapness, on the south coast Westray (1 hr 30 mins). It sails twice daily in summer (mid-May to mid-Sep) and once daily in winter.

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Rhos-on-Sea

Area: 27 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 18'N
Longitude: 03° 44'W

A mile to the north of Colwyn Bay, Rhos on Sea was of key importance to the monks of Aberconwy because of the extremely productive Rhos Fynach fishing weir given to them by Llewelyn. The weir continued to provide livelihood for various leaseholders unti...

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Rhubodach

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 55'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=46

Rhubodach is located on the north shore of the Isle of Bute which lies in the Firth of Clyde between the Cowal peninsula and the Isle of Arran. The origins of ferries to Bute are obscure and it was only with the coming if steamships in 1814 that the real...

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Ridham Dock

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 23'N
Longitude: 00° 45'E
Website: www.galbraiths.ltd.uk/rep...Ridham.htm

Ridham Dock is located on the River Swale close to Sittingbourne in north Kent. It has good access to the UK road network enabling cost effective distribution throughout the South-East. It was established during the First World War for loading ammunitio...

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Ringhaddy

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 27'N
Longitude: 05° 38'W

Ringhaddy Quay was built in the early part of the 19th century, or possibly earlier, and is one of the best examples of a medium-sized quay in Strangford Lough. It is in private ownership and access is restricted.

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Ronas Voe

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 30'N
Longitude: 01° 32'W

A salmon fishery operates from this pier.

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Rosehearty

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 02° 07'W
Website: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/...hearty.asp

Rosehearty is a friendly coastal town lying four miles west of Fraserburgh. It was founded in the 14th century by a group of shipwrecked Danes. Rosehearty like its neighbour Fraserburgh, has always been primarily a fishing community. Early lairds built...

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Rosneath

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 00'N
Longitude: 04° 46'W
Website: www.drbmarine.co.uk/

The former Admiralty jetty at Rosneath, situated at the entry to the popular yachting center of the Gareloch, is now owned by DRB Marine who provide a range of services dedicated to the boating fraternity. The jetty can accommodate large sea going vess...

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Rothesay

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 50'N
Longitude: 05° 02'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=47

Rothesay on the Isle of Bute is a 30 minute ferry ride from the mainland at Wemyss Bay. Rothesay is famous for its pier and promenade which have been built on reclaimed land. The original shoreline lies about 200m further inland, just in front of Rothes...

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Rousay

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 08'N
Longitude: 02° 58'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/tr...d_pier.asp

The ferry from Tingwall lands at Trumland Pier. Here is the Trumland Visitor Centre, which also doubles as the ferry waiting room. Overlooking the pier is the Pier Restaurant and bar. ...

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Ryall

Area: 21 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 03'N
Longitude: 02° 12'W
Website: www.cemex.co.uk/file/Rive...nFINAL.pdf

A new wharf has been constructed (2006) at Ryall on the River Severn near Upton, to receive sand and gravel from the quarry at Ripple, two miles downstream. The sand and gravel is screened at Ryall and some of the processed aggregate is then transported b...

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Salcombe

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 13'N
Longitude: 03° 46'W
Website: www.salcombeharbour.co.uk/

One of the most beautiful sailing and fishing centres in the west country, Salcombe Harbour offers a safe haven to visiting yachts with a complete range of associated facilities. Apart from the sizeable local shellfishing fleet, there is no commercial tra...

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Salen

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 42'N
Longitude: 05° 47'W
Website: www.salenjetty.co.uk

Salen Jetty was constructed in about 1820 under the supervision of Thomas Telford. The tidal times and heights are practically the same as Oban predictions. The depth of water alongside the jetty is the same as the rise at Oban. At Mean High Water Spr...

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Salen (Mull)

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 31'N
Longitude: 05° 56'W
Website: www.salenpierhouse.co.uk/...uction.htm

From the 1850s until superseded by the Craignure pier in the 1960s, Salen was served by steamers from Oban. Between 1905 and 1955 MacBrayne’s MV Lochinvar sailed every morning (except Sunday) from Tobermory for Oban, calling at Salen, Lochaline and Craig...

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Salford

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 28'N
Longitude: 02° 17'W
Website: www.macccam.co.uk/Salford...quays.html

Queen Victoria opened the docks in 1894 when the Manchester Ship Canal was at the heartland of North West's industrial strength, pumping in wealth from trade all over the world. By the 1970s the advent of containerisation impacted on the Manchester doc...

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Saltcoats

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 38'N
Longitude: 04° 46'W

Saltcoats lies adjacent to Ardrossan on the Firth of Clyde. Saltcoats derives its name from the ancient practice of boiling sea water to extract salt, which its habitants once carried out in their beachside houses known as "salt cots". Saltcoats grew and ...

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Saltfleet

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 25'N
Longitude: 00° 11'E
Website: www.saltfleethaven.co.uk

(The following history of the port is extracted from the Saltfleet Haven Boat Club's website): Saltfleet Haven, once called 'Saltflue't, 'Saltcoteholm', and until 1356 'Saltfleetby', has been a port as long as man has occupied the fens of Lincol...

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Sandend

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 02° 44'W

Sandend lies on the coast some three miles west of Portsoy. As its name suggests, it stands at the end of a beautiful broad sandy bay which is one of the most popular beaches in the area. The earliest mention of Sandend dates back to 1624, but most of...

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Sandhaven

Area: 57 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 41'N
Longitude: 02° 02'W
Website: www.sandhavenharbour.org.uk/index.html

Immediately to the west of Fraserburgh lie the twin villages of Sandhaven and Pittulie. In 1835 the fishermen of Pitullie realised that they needed much better harbour facilities and petitioned the Commissioners of the Herring Fishery in Edinburgh for p...

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Sandsayre

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 00'N
Longitude: 01° 13'W
Website: www.sandsayrepiertrust.com/index.html

The pier is believed to have been built in the 1850s, although no exact completion date is known. Plans prepared and signed by D&T Stephenson are dated 1854. Sandsayre Pier is located at the village of Leebitton, on the south of mainland Shetland. It...

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Sandside

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 34'N
Longitude: 03° 47'W

Sandside Harbour and the associated fishing store and cottages were built in 1830 by Major William Innes of Sandside. The harbour faces east and is sheltered to the west by higher ground. Dounreay nuclear facility is clearly visible from the harbour and...

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Sandwich

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 16'N
Longitude: 01° 23'E
Website: www.open-sandwich.co.uk/c...ndwich.htm

Sandwich is now about two miles from the sea, but the River Stour used to be large enough for big trading and war ships to sail to and from the quay. This large harbour was called Sandwich Haven. It was also large enough for invading ships, hence the town...

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Sannox

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 09'W

An isolated jetty in the tiny village of Sannox, on Arran's east coast. The jetty was once used by local fishermen but is now only used by the occasional leisure craft.

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Saundersfoot

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 42'N
Longitude: 04° 41'W

'Saundersfoot' is thought to be a combination of 'Saunders', the name of a locally important family and their farm and 'foot' a topographical feature. In 1829 the Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company was authorised by Parliament and a tram-road wa...

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Scalasaig (Colonsay)

Area: 41 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 04'N
Longitude: 06° 10'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=31

Scalasaig lies on the east coast of the island of Colonsay in Argyll and Bute. Colonsay is eight miles long and from one to three miles wide. It lies to the west of Jura and south of Mull. In 1965 a ferry pier was built at Scalasaig to service the ferry...

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Scalloway

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 08'N
Longitude: 01° 18'W
Website: http://content.shetland.g...lloway.htm

Scalloway Harbour is situated in a sheltered inlet on the West coast of Shetland Mainland. It handles general and reefer cargo. Freight vessels trading to the UK and Scandinavia regularly call at Scalloway. Cargoes handled include frozen fish, bulk ferti...

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Scalpay

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 52'N
Longitude: 06° 41'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Scalpay's North Harbour is the main harbour on the island. It is used mainly by local fishing boats.

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Scapa

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 57'N
Longitude: 02° 58'W

In 1880 Scapa Pier (2 miles from Kirkwall on the Southern side) was opened and became the main terminal for Orkney. In more recent years Kirkwall has become the more important port. The first phase of a £1.15 million project to improve Scapa Pier bega...

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Scarborough

Area: 3 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 16'N
Longitude: 00° 23'W
Website: www.yorkshireports.co.uk/...rough.aspx

The port of Scarborough has been owned and managed by Scarborough Borough Council since the earlier Harbour Commissioners relinquished their responsibilities in the late 1940s. The harbour is situated at the foot of Scarborough Castle Hill. It consists...

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Scarfskerry

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 39'N
Longitude: 03° 16'W

The small harbour nestles in the lee of Dunnet Head, the most northerly point on the British Mainland. It is used by a few small fishing boats.

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Scarinish (Tiree)

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 30'N
Longitude: 06° 48'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=21

Scarinish harbour is the old harbour of Tiree. It was used many years ago by the Tiree smacks which carried coal, peat, etc., bringing in essential goods to the island. Some of the older residents remember when the harbour was so full of ships that you c...

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Scarp

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 00'N
Longitude: 07° 06'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

Uninhabited island off the west coast of South Lewis, near Hushinish Point.

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Scoraig

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 54'N
Longitude: 05° 22'W

The isolated crofting community of Scoraig is only accesible on foot via a path from Badrallach or by boat from Badluarach. Scoraig is well known for its pioneering use of wind power. ...

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Scrabster

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 36'N
Longitude: 03° 32'W
Website: www.scrabster.co.uk

Scrabster Harbour has provided a safe deep water anchorage to seafarers since the days of Viking longboats. Because of its advantageous location, Scrabster quickly became the gateway to the northern lands of Orkney, Shetland, Scandinavia and the Faroes. T...

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Seacliff

Area: 61 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 03'N
Longitude: 02° 37'W

Seacliff's claim to be the UK's smallest harbour is indisputable. Measuring no more than 12 metres along its longest side, and an entrance barely two metres across, this is the original one-man, one-boat harbour. It is blasted out of the Gegan Rock, the...

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Seaham

Area: 2 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 50'N
Longitude: 01° 19'W
Website: www.seahamharbour.com/pag...arbour.htm

Seaham harbour is situated three miles from Easington north of the Hawthorn Burn Dene. In 1828 the Marquis of Londonderry started the construction to facilitate the shipping of coals from the collieries he owned at Rainton near Durham City. Major indust...

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Seahouses

Area: 1 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 35'N
Longitude: 01° 40'W
Website: www.seahouses.org/communi.../index.htm

Seahouses harbour evolved from a beach area between two rock promontories as a result of many hundreds of years of combined protective features. The fishing trade in the 17th century provided the first requirement for conventional harbour facilities re...

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Seaton Sluice

Area: 2 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 04'N
Longitude: 01° 28'W
Website: www.seaton-sluice.co.uk/c...pping.html

Just over 200 years ago Seaton Sluice became the centre of a flourishing coal and glass trade, exporting to western Europe, with ships of up to 300 tons burden visiting the tiny harbour. It was from the 30-odd pits in the district near Hartley township th...

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Sharpness

Area: 21 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 43'N
Longitude: 02° 28'W
Website: www.sharpnessdock.co.uk/p...s_dock.htm

Lying some 11 miles west of Stroud, Sharpness is believed to be the biggest inland port in the country. It is the only working port in the county of Gloucestershire. It is principally commercial and attracts a substantial throughput of trade largely fro...

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Shieldaig

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 31'N
Longitude: 05° 40'W

Shieldaig, on the edge of Loch Shieldaig, an offshoot of Loch Torridon, was established in 1800. Its purpose was to attract families to take up fishing for a living; and, to help build up a stock of trained seamen who could be called upon by the Royal Nav...

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Shoreham Port

Area: 11 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 50'N
Longitude: 00° 14'W
Website: www.shoreham-port.co.uk

Shoreham has been a working port for very many centuries and was first recorded by the Romans when the port was known as Portus Adurni. The name Shoreham came into common use after the Saxon invasion in the fifth century AD. In Norman times, Shoreham ...

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Shuna

Area: 40 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 05° 35'W

The pier on Shuna was built around 1908, to facilitate building of the (now derelict) castle on the island. The pier provides all tide states access to shallow draught vessels (less than 3 feet at MLWS), and around 12 foot draught at MHWS. There is ...

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Sidlesham Quay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 46'N
Longitude: 00° 47'W

Up to the middle of the 19th century Sidlesham was an active commercial port. An average of 68 boats a year, each of 25 tons, put in to the quay, bringing cargoes of coal and grain to suppy Sidlesham Mill. They left with cargoes of flour. In 1876 Parl...

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Skateraw

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 58'N
Longitude: 02° 25'W



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Skerray

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 33'N
Longitude: 04° 18'W
Website: www.skerray.com/page/skerray-harbour

The present harbour was built at a cost of some £4,000 at the end of the nineteenth century. The approach to the harbour is shallow and protected by low reefs. A boat operating from Skerray pier makes visits to some of the offshore islands. The harbour...

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Skigersta

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 28'N
Longitude: 06° 11'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

The village of Skigersta was created from farmland during the early 19th century to provide housing for the crews of some of the long-line fishermen who worked from the nearby harbour. Although this industry has long since disappeared, local fishing and ...

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Skirza

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 35'N
Longitude: 03° 02'W

A small harbour used nowadays only by small creel boats. Skirza House, at the harbour, was owned by James Mowat, the last Pentland Firth Pilot. His descendents still live in the area; some of them reside at the house called "The Shop" which was run by ...

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Slaughden Quay

Area: 7 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 07'N
Longitude: 01° 36'E

Aldeburgh has been shaped by its rivers. The River Alde bounds the town to the south as at one time the River Hundred did to the north. The Alde was the town's main source of prosperity. What was then a flourishing port sent four ships to fight the Spa...

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Snape Bridge

Area: 7 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 08'N
Longitude: 01° 30'E

Probability suggests it was the monks from Snape Priory who constructed their own water mill and also built the first bridge across the Alde. It was certainly wooden and by 1492 sufficiently in need of repair for the then Bishop of Norwich to give permis...

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Solva

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 12'W

Solva, an ancient fishing village, whose Viking name means 'sunny inlet' stands in a deep valley gouged out by water melting from glaciers, and its position made it ideal as a base for trading ships in the 18th century. It grew from the lime trade, which...

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South Pier (Gigha)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 38'N
Longitude: 05° 44'W

The MacBrayne's steamers used to stop here on their way to Islay before the Ro/Ro ferries. The pier is now used by local fishing vessels. Seafood – including lobsters, clams and prawns – is brought in by the boats that tie up on South Pier. The Bal...

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South Shian

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 32'N
Longitude: 05° 24'W

A long-disused jetty on the Benderloch peninsula near the entrance to Loch Creran. A ferry once ran across the loch entrance from nearby North Shian.

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Southampton

Area: 12 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 53'N
Longitude: 01° 23'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf.../soton.htm

One of the country’s busiest and most successful deep-water ports, Southampton is a natural choice for a wide range of customers and trades, with facilities to handle virtually any type of cargo. Its natural deep-water harbour and unique double tide allow...

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Sparl

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 23'N
Longitude: 01° 21'W



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St Abbs

Area: 61 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 53'N
Longitude: 02° 07'W
Website: www.stabbs.org/harbourtrust.html

The village of St Abbs used to be known as Coldingham Shore. In the late 19th century, due to Victorian romanticism and the desire to distinguish the growing village from its larger neighbour Coldingham, the village changed its name to St. Abbs after the ...

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St Agnes

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 51'N
Longitude: 06° 28'W



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St Andrews

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 20'N
Longitude: 02° 46'W
Website: www.saint-andrews.co.uk/T...arbour.htm

St Andrews Harbour has in its day known commerce with all parts of Europe. In medieval times the town traded widely, principally with the Low Countries. At its peak, the harbour may have berthed as many as 300 ships. But it fell into disuse with the open...

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St Aubin

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 10'N
Longitude: 02° 10'W
Website: www.portofjersey.je/Jerse...bours.aspx

The harbour at St Aubin was completed in 1700, and with the protection of St Aubin’s Fort (built in the 1540s), it attracted most of the Island’s shipping. The merchants who used this haven got rich from their trading, and built some fine houses in the ar...

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St Catherine (Jersey)

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 13'N
Longitude: 02° 01'W
Website: www.portofjersey.je/Jerse...bours.aspx

St. Catherine's Breakwater, on Jersey's north coast, is all that exists of a projected "refuge" harbour for the Royal Navy. It was intended to be used as a forward base in the event of a blockade of the French coast. The harbour was designed during th...

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St Catherine's (Argyll)

Area: 39 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 13'N
Longitude: 05° 01'W
Website: www.inveraraypier.com/stc...rines.html

A ferry to Inveraray formerly operated from St Catherine's. The route was favoured by the Earls of Argyll as the most direct, to and from the Lowlands. The ferry service ceased in the 1960s. Nowadays the pier is used mainly by divers and yachtsmen.

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St David's

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 02'N
Longitude: 03° 22'W

St David's Harbour was originally constructed in 1752 for the export of coal from Fordell. It took vessels up to 600 tonnes. The harbour became a scrap metal yard until the land was sold for housing development in the 1980s.

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St Margaret's Hope

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 50'N
Longitude: 02° 56'W
Website: www.orkneycommunities.co....PIERTRUST/

St Margaret's Hope is the third largest settlement in Orkney and sits at the head of a sheltered bay at the northern end of South Ronaldsay. The village has become a busier place than it used to be following the opening of a car ferry link by View details)

St Martin's

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 01'N
Longitude: 06° 17'W

St. Martin's has a daily boat service from Lower Town Quay on St Mary's, ferrying passengers to the other main islands as well as fishing trips and special hire.

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St Mawes

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 09'N
Longitude: 05° 01'W

St. Mawes, is a pretty harbourside village on the that looks out over the River Fal to the busy maritime town of Falmouth. The dramatic Cornish coastline around St Mawes was used as the setting for the popular television series Poldark. This is very mu...

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St Michael's Mount

Area: 18 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 07'N
Longitude: 05° 28'W

The pier was rebuilt about 1428 by the monks on the Mount after attempts to raise money in Marazion had failed, and the governors of the Mount were responsible for its upkeep. It was greatly improved in the mid eighteenth century and its entrance enlarge...

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St Monans

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 12'N
Longitude: 02° 44'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...2D3F9DEA31

The original pier (on the site of the present middle one), was built by Baron Newark in the 15th century. The foundation stone of a new pier, to the east of the old one, was laid in 1863 and the pier finished in 1865. The old West Pier was demolished an...

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St Sampson

Area: 14 (view area map)
Latitude: 49° 28'N
Longitude: 02° 30'W
Website: www.guernseyharbours.gov.gg/

Towards the end of the 18th century there was a demand for granite in England and around 1760 granite was stating to be exported from the island. Ships would dry out and be loaded by horse and cart from the nearby quarries that were starting up to supply...

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Stackpole Quay

Area: 23 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 37'N
Longitude: 04° 53'W

Stackpole Quay is a small inlet protected by an historic masonry quay built by Earl Cawdor at the end of the 18th century to ship out limestone from his nearby quarry and to bring in luxury goods for Stackpole Court, the Earl’s extensive estate. It is one...

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Staffa

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 28'N
Longitude: 06° 25'W

Staffa meaning "Pillar Island", is an uninhabited island of caves. Only half a mile long by a quarter of a mile wide, Staffa is famous for its basaltic formations and distinctive stepped columns created when the lava of volcanic eruptions cooled many mill...

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Staffin

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 38'N
Longitude: 06° 12'W
Website: www.staffin.net/data/plac.../index.htm

(Adapted from the above website) The original structure was built by the Congested Districts Board in the early 1900s. Using a local labour force a new stone built slipway was created along with a store to allow freight to be unloaded and...

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Staithes

Area: 2 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 33'N
Longitude: 00° 47'W
Website: www.staithes-uk.co.uk/staithes.htm

In 1745 James Cook, aged 16, came from Whitby to live in Staithes. Captain Cook, as he was later to be known, received his first taste of the sea and ships in this harbor village, where he worked as an assistant to William Sanderson, merchant, for 18 mon...

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Starcross

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 37'N
Longitude: 03° 26'W
Website: www.exe2sea.co.uk

Starcross lies between Exeter and Dawlish on the A379 and is surrounded by arable land on three sides and the river Exe on the fourth. A regular passenger ferry runs between Starcross Pier and Exmouth during the summer season. An old jetty extends at rig...

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Staxigoe

Area: 54 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 26'N
Longitude: 03° 02'W

Staxigoe is situated about a mile north of Wick on the road to Noss Head. In the mid-1800s, it was the largest herring station in Europe and the industry created work for gutters, coopers, basket and sail-makers, carpenters and not least, the fishermen th...

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Stonehaven

Area: 58 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 57'N
Longitude: 02° 11'W
Website: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/...ehaven.asp

Stonehaven Harbour was first built prior to 1607 but was destroyed by storms. It was repaired and again destroyed by storms. In 1678 it was built more robustly but this too broke up under the force of the North Sea. A new plan was drawn up in 1825 by Robe...

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Stornoway

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 11'N
Longitude: 06° 22'W
Website: www.stornoway-portauthority.com

The harbour is capable of handling vessels up to 140m and 13,000 GRT alongside, with no size limit at anchorage. It has three main piers, one of which accommodates a busy Ro/Ro ferry, which serves the islands. There are also three quays for smaller vess...

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Strachur

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 10'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

Probably built in the 18th century, the pier used to be much longer and was originally used by steamers which had sailed up Long Fyne from Glasgow. It fell into disrepair in the 1960s and the then owner Fitzroy Maclean had it blown up, leaving just the s...

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Strangford

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 22'N
Longitude: 05° 32'W

Strangford appears as one of the 'Ports of Ulster' in 1281. It continued to prosper as the trading port, especially with North Wales and by the end of the 18th Century it ranked eighth amonst the ports of Ireland. By the mid 19th Century, however, it ha...

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Stranraer (West Pier)

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 05° 02'W
Website: www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.a...#Stranraer

The West Pier is owned and operated by the local Council as a traditional harbour for leisure and small fishing craft. There are pontoons with 53 permanent berths, let on an annual basis with nine visitors' berths available. Showers and toilets are also ...

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Stranraer Ferry Terminal

Area: 35 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 05° 02'W
Website: www.stenaline.co.uk/ferry...er-belfast

In 1872 a link between Larne and Stranraer was started by the Larne and Stranraer steamboat company. Stranraer, situated at the head of Loch Ryan, together with Larne in Ireland, became the first ports in the UK with dedicated roll-on roll-off ramps ...

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Stroma

Area: 50 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 40'N
Longitude: 03° 07'W

The Island of Stroma lies in the Pentland Firth one and a half miles North of Huna. There was no fuel on Stroma, and the people had a licence to cut peat in John O' Groats and Gills. This would be transported in carts to a boat which took it to the is...

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Stronsay West Pier

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 09'N
Longitude: 02° 36'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/west_pier.asp

This is the old pier in the village of Whitehall, to the west of the newer ferry terminal. Each July and August during the height of the herring boom from the 1880s to the First World War, the population of Stronsay, normally around 1200 at the time, w...

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Strontian

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 05° 33'W



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Struan

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 21'N
Longitude: 06° 24'W

Loch Bracadale is used extensively by a mainly local fishing fleet, with a minimum of seven active boats. These are based at Carbost and Struan. The private slipway at Struan is used by a small number of fishing vessels.

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Suisnish (Raasay)

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 19'N
Longitude: 06° 03'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...erminals=8

Suisnish is the Raasay terminal for Calmac car ferries from Sconser, on Skye. The ferries berth at the slipway, then move to the shelter of the jetty before the next timetabled departure.

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Sunderland

Area: 2 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 55'N
Longitude: 01° 22'W
Website: www.portofsunderland.org.uk

Sunderland was long an important coal port, but the industry for which the town was until recently better knows was shipbuilding. Since 1346 when Thomas Menville was recorded as building vessels here Sunderland has had a shipbuilding industry. Indeed ...

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Sutton Harbour (Plymouth)

Area: 17 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 22'N
Longitude: 04° 07'W
Website: www.sutton-harbour.co.uk

Sutton Harbour lies behind Southside Street in the Barbican. At one time this was just a ragged line of warehouses, but the construction of Vauxhall Quay in 1602 transformed the area. It was a busy thriving harbour in medieval times, but by the mid 20th...

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Swanage

Area: 13 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 37'N
Longitude: 01° 57'W
Website: www.swanagepiertrust.com

The Swanage area has always been famous for its Purbeck Limestone, and during the 19th Century the quarrying of this stone formed the basis of the local economy. Originally the quarried stone would be taken to the shore and loaded onto small, shallow dra...

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Swanbister

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 55'N
Longitude: 03° 07'W



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Swansea

Area: 22 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 37'N
Longitude: 03° 56'W
Website: www.abports.co.uk/custinf...wansea.htm

It is believed that Swansea was founded around the 10th century along with most settlements in South Wales. Being a small market town, it was invaded many times by the Vikings which destroyed and created new settlements. The name Swansea is believed to ha...

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Symbister (Whalsay)

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 21'N
Longitude: 01° 00'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...bister.asp

Symbister in Whalsay is a good base for cruising yachts in the area. The boating club welcomes visitors and the busy fishing harbour has well-stocked shops.

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Talmine

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 32'N
Longitude: 04° 25'W

The harbour was built by the Duke of Sutherland in the 19th century. The pier connects the mainland with the Eilean Creagach, forming a small harbour. A steep slipway provides a launching point for dinghies.

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Tal-y-Foel

Area: 26 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 09'N
Longitude: 04° 17'W

The pier used to be an important ferry crossing point from Anglesey to Caernarfon, as early as the 15th century. It is now used by a few local fishermen.

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Tarbert (Harris)

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 53'N
Longitude: 06° 47'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...erminals=3

Tarbert is the main port and capital village of Harris. Tarbert is a fairly common name across Scotland and, here as elsewhere, it comes from the Norse tairbeart meaning draw-boat. Tarbert lies on the shores of East Loch Tarbert, and South Harris avoids b...

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Tarbert (Loch Fyne)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 52'N
Longitude: 05° 24'W
Website: www.tarbertlochfyne.com/harbour.php

(Largely extracted from the harbour website) The small inlet of Loch Fyne, known as East Loch Tarbert, has been used as a sheltering place for over a thousand years. Even before Magnus Bareleg negotiated the isthmus, fisherman and traders...

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Tarbet

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 58'N
Longitude: 05° 38'W
Website: www.knoydart-ferry.co.uk/...ferry.html

Bruce Watt operates a daily (Monday to Friday in summer) ferry service from Mallaig to this remote former fishing settlement on the south bank of Loch Nevis. For the remainder of the year the ferry operates only on Mondays and Fridays. There is no road ac...

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Tarbet

Area: 49 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 23'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W

Tarbet is the terminus for the ferry to Handa Island. As a result it also offers a reasonably sized car park and a cafe. The ferry to Handa Island runs regularly from Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 2.00pm, with a last return at 5.00pm. The round tri...

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Tayinloan

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 40'N
Longitude: 05° 39'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=37

Tayinloan is on the west coast of Kintyre about 12 miles south of Tarbert. Caledonian MacBrayne operate a car ferry between Tayinloan and Gigha. The first ferry service was started in November 1980. Those ferries carried only six cars and as they only ha...

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Tayport

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 26'N
Longitude: 02° 52'W
Website: www.tayport.org.uk/article.php?id=35

Situated on the south side of the River Tay, Ferryport on Craig, as it was originally known, started life as a quiet farming and fishing village. It was not until the invention of steam aided ferries that Tayport really took off in its own right. The vill...

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Tayvallich

Area: 38 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 01'N
Longitude: 05° 37'W

Tayvallich Bay is a well-sheltered haven which offers a safe anchorage and an all-tide pier to load/unload with a minimum depth of five feet at Low Water Springs. The access and fairway to the inner harbour have a minimum depth of five feet, and eight fee...

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Thamesport

Area: 9 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 25'N
Longitude: 00° 43'E
Website: www.thamesport.co.uk

Built at the turn of the nineties, London Thamesport has quickly become one of the leading players in the European container handling market. Boasting robotic cranes, Thamesport is one of the most technologically advanced ports in the world. London Tha...

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Thornham

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 58'N
Longitude: 00° 36'E

In the 18th and 19th centuries Thornham had a large harbour and was a popular place with smugglers who used to sink their contraband off the coast, in water proof containers. Then when the tide had receded the locals would recover the goods. The Old Lifeb...

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Tighnabruaich

Area: 37 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 54'N
Longitude: 05° 13'W
Website: www.tighnabruaichpierassociation.co.uk

Tighnabruaich Pier, one of the few surviving working wooden piers in the Firth of Clyde to be used for its original purpose, is a Listed Building set in a National Scenic Area. However, when exactly it was built is not known. It is described in various ol...

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Tingwall

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 05'N
Longitude: 03° 01'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/ti...rminal.asp

Tingwall is a tiny settlement on the north east coast of Orkney's West Mainland which looks across the Gairsay Sound to the islands of Gairsay, Wyre and Rousay. These days Tingwall is best known as the Mainland terminal for the roll-on roll-off ferry t...

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Topsham

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 41'N
Longitude: 03° 28'W
Website: www.exeter.gov.uk/index.a...cleid=1698

Topsham has been a port since Roman times. The Earls of Devon, the Courtenays, who owned the manor of Topsham, ensured the success of the port by building a weir across the river in 1284. This left only a small gap for very small vessels to reach Exeter...

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Torquay

Area: 16 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 28'N
Longitude: 03° 32'W
Website: www.torbay.gov.uk/index/l...arbour.htm

Torquay Harbour lies on the North shore of Tor Bay and despite a high proportion of activities revolving around the leisure industry, Torquay still remains a fully operational and busy little port and is very close to the town centre giving easy access to...

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Toscaig

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 22'N
Longitude: 05° 48'W

The ferry from Toscaig, just south of Applecross, to Kyle of Lochalsh, closed down some 30 years ago. At a meeting of the Highland Council's Transport, Environment and Community Services Committee in September 2004, it was noted that a mussel farmer ha...

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Ullapool

Area: 45 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 54'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W
Website: www.ullapool-harbour.co.uk/

Ullapool is located in Ross and Cromarty district and within the Highland Council Area of north west Scotland. It became the principal port for the trade in herring as a consequence of its promotion and development by the British Fisheries Society in 1788...

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Ulsta (Yell)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 30'N
Longitude: 01° 09'W

Ulsta is near the southern tip of the Shetland island of Yell in the Northern Isles. It is linked by car ferry to Toft on Mainland Shetland.

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Ulva

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 28'N
Longitude: 06° 09'W
Website: www.isleofulva.com

Ulva is privately owned, formerly the home of 600 people who made their living from the collection and exportation of kelp. Today there are only 11 residents who make a living from the land, sheep and cattle farming, fish farming, oyster farming and touri...

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Ulva Ferry

Area: 42 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 28'N
Longitude: 06° 08'W

The passenger ferry to Ulva Island leaves from the slipway. The ferry operates on demand Monday to Friday between 0900 and 1700. It also operates on Sundays between 1 June and 31 August. There are no ferry sailings on Saturdays.

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Usan

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 02° 26'W

Just south of Montrose is the Fishtown of Usan. Once a thriving fishing port, the decline of the industry has left Usan a near-derelict village. In the second half of the 19th century, a commercial icehouse was built, and this is the vaulted building...

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Uyeasound (Unst)

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 41'N
Longitude: 00° 55'W

Not far from Unst's ferry terminus at Belmont a side road leads you to the south coast settlement of Uyeasound, a centre for fish farming operations. This is built at the head of Uyea Sound, and in the shelter of the island of Uyea.

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Valtos

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 13'N
Longitude: 06° 56'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm

The small village of Valtos is located on the western shore of West Loch Roag, on the western coastline of Lewis in the Western Isles. Sailing trips in a 16' clinker built Walker Family sailor can be arranged from Valtos Pier by contacting Cree Macken...

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Wadbister

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 14'N
Longitude: 01° 13'W



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Wadebridge

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 31'N
Longitude: 04° 50'W

Up until the 19th century Wadebridge was an important port locally. The early 1833 mineral railway transported china clay and granite down from Bodmin Moor to be shipped out. Granite, dressed and exported from Wadebridge travelled as far away as Sri Lanka...

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Wainfleet Haven

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 53° 06'N
Longitude: 00° 19'E
Website: www.skegnessyachtclub.co.uk

In the early Middle Ages, Wainfleet was one of the most important ports on the east coast of England, rivalling and even exceeding its immediate neighbour to the south, Boston. In the 12th, 13th and early part of the 14th centuries, the town was most pro...

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Walberswick

Area: 7 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 17'N
Longitude: 01° 39'E
Website: www.waveney.gov.uk/servic...arbour.htm

The name Walberswick is believed to derive from the Saxon Waldbert or Walhbert - probably a landowner - and “wyc”, meaning shelter or harbour. At a point in the 15th and 16th centuries there were a series of ports dotted along the east coast, bringing i...

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Walls

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 13'N
Longitude: 01° 34'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports.../walls.asp

A ferry service runs from Walls pier on the west coast of the mainland to the pier at Ham Voe on the small island of Foula. An occasional ferry also runs to Scalloway. Walls has a 30 berth marina and a boating club. Fishing is limited to a few small i...

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Warrenpoint

Area: 31 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 05'N
Longitude: 06° 11'W
Website: www.warrenpointharbour.co.uk

The original Port of Warrenpoint, consisting of a wet dock and piers, was constructed in the late 1770s by Roger Hall, Robert Ross and Isaac Corry with the assistance of £500 of public funds. In 1919 the heirs of Roger Hall sold the Port to John Kelly ...

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Watchet

Area: 20 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 10'N
Longitude: 03° 18'W
Website: www.watchet-harbour-marina.com

The town of Watchet is over 1000 years old and was the subject of Viking raids for hundreds of years during Saxon times. The harbour and docks have always been an important part of Watchet's existence. It was a vital port for the transportation of go...

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Waterfoot

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 03'N
Longitude: 06° 03'W

Waterfoot harbour is situated on the Co. Antrim coast road at Red Bay, between the towns of Carnlough and Cushendall. It is one of the most sheltered harbours on the Antrim Coast. The bay gets its name from the red sandstone cliffs that rise at the north ...

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Waterloo

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 14'N
Longitude: 05° 53'W

Now largely disused, this old jetty is in the hamlet of Waterloo, just east of Broadford.

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Watermouth

Area: 20 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 13'N
Longitude: 04° 04'W

Watermouth Cove is a pretty and picturesque cove sheltered from the elements and opposite Waterworth Castle, near Ilfracombe, North Devon.

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Wells-next-the-Sea

Area: 5 (view area map)
Latitude: 52° 58'N
Longitude: 00° 49'E
Website: www.wellsharbour.co.uk

Wells-next-the-Sea on the North Norfolk coast has been a port and a largely natural safe-haven for ships and boats for at least 600 years. Protected by rare salt marshes behind a sand bar, Wells was one of England's major ports in Tudor times and a thrivi...

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West Burrafirth

Area: 53 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 17'N
Longitude: 01° 32'W
Website: www.shetland.gov.uk/ports...afirth.asp

A passenger ferry service runs between West Burrafirth on the east coast of Mainland Shetland and Housa Voe on the small island of Papa Stour to the east.

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West Harbour (Ballachulish)

Area: 43 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 41'N
Longitude: 05° 08'W

This tiny harbour is home to a few fishing boats and the occasional visiting yacht.

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West Loch Tarbert (Argyll)

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 49'N
Longitude: 05° 26'W

The sea loch of West Loch Tarbert lies on the western coast of the Kintyre Peninsula, running northeast from Ardpatrick Point to the settlement of West Tarbert. An isthmus, only a mile in width, separates West Loch Tarbert from East Loch Tarbert on the ea...

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West Loch Tarbert (Harris)

Area: 48 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 54'N
Longitude: 06° 49'W
Website: www.cne-siar.gov.uk/harbo.../index.htm



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West Suisnish (Raasay)

Area: 44 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 20'N
Longitude: 06° 04'W

This slipway, at Inverarish, is used by local fishing vessels.

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Weymss Bay

Area: 36 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 52'N
Longitude: 04° 52'W
Website: www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/t...rminals=48

Weymss Bay lies 8 miles south west of Greenock on the Firth of Clyde. Wemyss Bay was and still is very much the consequence of the rail connection to Glasgow (1865) and the regular steamer service to Rothesay (1870). The station and pier are perhaps ...

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Whalefirth

Area: 52 (view area map)
Latitude: 60° 36'N
Longitude: 01° 07'W



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Whaligoe

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 58° 20'N
Longitude: 03° 11'W

Whaligoe - this small port was prospected by Thomas Telford in 1786 during his tour of the Northern Fishing Harbours for the British Fishing Society - his judgement of the place was that it was a "terrible spot"! However undaunted, David Brodie expended ...

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Whitehall Ferry Terminal

Area: 51 (view area map)
Latitude: 59° 09'N
Longitude: 02° 36'W
Website: www.orkneyharbours.com/wh...l_pier.asp

Whitehall is Stronsay's main village and the terminus for the ferry service from Kirkwall. Its focus is its main street, which faces out into Papa Sound from between the arms of its two piers. Whitehall is notable mostly for the impressively substantial n...

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Whitehaven

Area: 29 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 33'N
Longitude: 03° 35'W
Website: www.whitehavenhc.org.uk

It may seem surprising today, but in the mid 18th century Whitehaven was a larger port than Liverpool, ranking only after London and Bristol. The harbour dates from 1634 with the building of the first pier. It expanded rapidly during the next 200 years - ...

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Whitehead

Area: 32 (view area map)
Latitude: 54° 44'N
Longitude: 05° 42'W

For decades this old harbour, built around 1850 by David Stewart Ker (owner of the townlands of White Head and Knocknagullagh), lay in ruins and silted up, but prints from 1865 show the harbour full of sailing ships and the railway running past it. A noti...

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Whiting Bay

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 55° 29'N
Longitude: 05° 05'W

A disused jetty on Arran's east coast.

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Whitstable

Area: 10 (view area map)
Latitude: 51° 21'N
Longitude: 01° 05'E
Website: http://whitstableharbour.org/

Whitstable is a small commercial harbour in north Kent on the Thames estuary, some 20 miles round the north east tip of the Kent Coast from Ramsgate. Whitstable Harbour was built in 1832 to serve the new railway, the world's first regular steam passeng...

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Wilkhaven

Area: 100 (view area map)
Latitude: 57° 50'N
Longitude: 03° 46'W



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Wormit (Woodhaven)

Area: 59 (view area map)
Latitude: 56° 25'N
Longitude: 02° 56'W
Website: www.fife.gov.uk/atoz/inde...C697013124

Wormit, at the Fife end of the great Tay Bridge, is a place that owes its existence to the site being chosen as the Fife terminus of the Tay Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1877 and Wormit which had once been a tranquil tiny huddle of cottages near t...

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Yarmouth

Area: 12 (view area map)
Latitude: 50° 42'N
Longitude: 01° 30'W
Website: www.yarmouth-harbour.co.uk

Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, is now a picturesque fishing, ferry and yachting port widely regarded as one of the jewels of the South Coast. There is a frequent vehicle and passenger ferry operating to and from Lymington. Journey time is 30 minutes....

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