List of ports in England and Wales
This is a list of the seaports of England and Wales, clockwise, starting from the Scottish border.Major operators
Five companies own the majority of UK ports: Associated British Ports, Forth Ports, Hutchison Port Holdings, Peel Group and PD Ports.Major ports
Listed clockwise around the English coast from the Scottish border.- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Blyth
- Port of Tyne - South Shields
- Sunderland
- Hartlepool
- Teesport - Middlesbrough
- Redcar
- Whitby
- Scarborough
- Bridlington
Humber
- Kingston-upon-Hull
- Immingham Dock, Port of Immingham, ABP
- Grimsby
- Goole
East Anglia
- Boston
- Port of King's Lynn - King's Lynn docks, Norfolk
- Great Yarmouth
- Lowestoft: ABP
- Felixstowe: Hutchison Whampoa
- Ipswich Dock
- Harwich: ferry port
- Southwold
Thames estuary
- Port of London
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, leisure, commercial/cargo, cruise terminals, lifeboat
- 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
- 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, commercial cargo, Devonport Dockyard
- Fowey: fishing, leisure, some commercial
- Falmouth: Falmouth Docks, Falmouth Lifeboat Station, commercial, bunker fuel
- Penzance: ferry, Newlyn, fishing, Penlee Lifeboat Station
- St Ives, Cornwall: fishing, lifeboat
- Padstow: fishing
- Appledore, Torridge, Devon: Appledore Shipbuilders
- Bideford: fishing, shipbuilding
- Port of Bridgwater
- Avonmouth: planned Suezmax container terminal, Bristol Port Company
- Bristol, Bristol Harbour, Royal Portbury Dock: Bristol Port Company
- Gloucester: canal, River Severn
- Birmingham: River Severn
- Newport
- Cardiff Docks: containers, steel, forest products and dry and liquid bulks
- Barry Docks
- Swansea: ferry to Cork
- Pembroke Dock: ferry to Rosslare
- Milford Haven
- Fishguard: ferry to Rosslare
- Port Penrhyn: Slate and aggregate shipments
- 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
- Silloth: ABP, feedstock, molasses, timber products
- Maryport
