List of ports in England and Wales

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This is a list of the seaports of England and Wales, clockwise, starting from the Scottish border. Also see:

• List of RNLI stations.
• List of free ports#United Kingdom
• the Cinque Ports, and their Lord Warden
• Vice-Admiral of the Coast, and his 19 subordinates
• List of Panamax ports#Great Britain
• List of busiest ports in Europe
• List of ferry operators#Europe
• List of deep water ports#Great Britain
• List of seaports
• List of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean
• Canal & River Trust: map
• DFT 2011 port statistics^[1]
• the "category" bar at the bottom of the page lists a few more

Major operators

Five companies own the majority of UK ports: Associated British Ports (ABP), Forth Ports, Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Peel Group and PD Ports.^[2]

Major ports

Listed clockwise around the English coast from the Scottish border.

Northeast England

• Berwick-upon-Tweed
• Port of Tyne - North Shields
• Sunderland
• Hartlepool
• Teesport - Middlesbrough
• Redcar
• Whitby
• Scarborough
• Bridlington

Humber

• Kingston-upon-Hull
• Immingham Dock, Port of Immingham, ABP
• Grimsby

East Anglia

• Port of King's Lynn - King's Lynn docks, Norfolk (royal charter)
• Great Yarmouth (royal charter)
• Lowestoft: ABP
• Felixstowe: Hutchison Whampoa
• Harwich: ferry port
• Southwold

Thames estuary

• Port of London (includes Tilbury and London Gateway)

Kent coast

• Port of Medway - Sheerness docks: commercial, old RN dockyard, ferry
• Port of Whitstable: fishing, small commercial
• Port of Ramsgate: ferry, leisure, lifeboat
• Port of Dover: ferry
• Folkestone: difficult, largely derelict

South coast (including Isle of Wight)

• Newhaven: ferry port
• Shoreham-by-Sea
• Portsmouth: naval dockyards, ferry port, Maersk containers, cruise ship port
• Southampton: DP World, ABP, ferry port, cruise liner port
• Cowes: ferry port
• Lymington
• Poole: ferry port, Royal Marine, commercial, fishing (royal charter)
• Portland Port, Portland Harbour
• Weymouth, Portland Harbour
• Exmouth: Exmouth Lifeboat Station
• Brixham: Torbay Lifeboat Station, fishing
• Dartmouth: Royal Navy officer training, Dart Lifeboat Station
• Plymouth: ferry port, Devonport Dockyard
• Fowey: fishing, leisure, some commercial
• Falmouth: Falmouth Docks, Falmouth Lifeboat Station, commercial, bunker fuel
• Penzance: ferry, Newlyn, fishing, Penlee Lifeboat Station

Bristol Channel

• St Ives, Cornwall: fishing, lifeboat
• Padstow: fishing
• Appledore, Torridge, Devon: Appledore Shipbuilders
• Bideford: fishing, shipbuilding
• Avonmouth: planned Suezmax container terminal, Bristol Port Company
• Bristol, Bristol Harbour, Royal Portbury Dock: Bristol Port Company
• Gloucester: canal, River Severn

Wales

• Newport
• Cardiff Docks: containers, steel, forest products and dry and liquid bulks
• Swansea: ferry to Cork
• Pembroke Dock: ferry to Rosslare
• Milford Haven
• Fishguard: ferry to Rosslare
• Aberystwyth
• Aberdyfi
• Port of Holyhead, Stena Line Ports Ltd are the statutory Harbour Authority, Irish Ferries: ferry to Dublin, amongst others
• Mostyn: Airbus A380 wing transshipment

Northwest England

• Birkenhead: Peel Ports
• Port of Liverpool, List of Liverpool Docks: commercial, cruise
  • Seaforth Dock,
  • Kings Dock,
  • Harrington Dock,
  • Hornby Dock,
  • Herculaneum Dock,
  • Pier Head,
  • Old Dock,
  • Langton Dock,
  • Canada Dock. formerly home to CP Ships
  • Alexandra Dock,
  • Huskisson Dock,
  • Brocklebank Dock
• Port of Garston: ABP
• Manchester: Peel Ports
• Fleetwood: Wyre Dock railway station, fishing, now largely derelict
• Heysham: Heysham Port railway station, ferry, freight
• Barrow-in-Furness: shipyard, steelworks, marina, cruise?, Port of Barrow: ABP
• Whitehaven: leisure, fishing
• Workington

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