tidal harbour

It has a perfect situation, high above the river and what used to be a tidal harbour - virtually impregnable.

The town had a tidal harbour on the River Brede.

However there was a wharf siding line extending from near the station to a tidal harbour.

In addition to tourism related to the park, lobster and scallop fishing are an important industry based out of Alma's tidal harbour.

Hartlepool was a tidal harbour, and at low tide it was difficult for the cruisers to get out to sea.

The old Celtic road system converged nearby, to use the river crossing; the tidal harbour was protected and the land was good.

In the 18th century there was a small unprotected tidal harbour at Bude, but it was difficult whenever the sea was up.

We are a tidal harbour at Pavilionstone, as indeed I have implied already in my mention of tidal trains.

Dredging ceased in the 1960s when Nobel stopped importing raw materials and Irvine became a 'tidal harbour'.

Aberdeen had a tidal harbour at the time Abernethy arrived, and he spent a year dredging and building embankments to improve the access channel.

When the packet entered the Tidal Harbour it was nearly eight o'clock, and all four travellers were tired, chilled, and not in the best of spirits.

It includes a large tidal harbour at the mouth of the Eatonville Brook beside several dramatic sea stacks known as the "Three Sisters".

Henry watches the fog's progress up and around Crach Rock, where the Wear makes a sharp bend and widens into the tidal harbour.

Tom, reaching the deck, found that the Betsy Anne was clear of the mouth of the Tidal Harbour, with the wind filling her sails.

In 1966, work commenced on the construction of the new Port Talbot Tidal Harbour, south-west of the existing docks system.

However, Irvine harbour's fortunes still declined, partly because of it being a tidal harbour and partly because of intense rivalry from other local ports.

The island houses a campground, a ferry pier, a tidal harbour for small vessels and approximately 15 hotels and hundreds of vacation houses and apartments.

Solva Harbour A sheltered tidal harbour, popular with small boat owners, Solva used to depend on the sea before the road came.

The first wharf was built in 1836 and the community quickly grew around the sheltered tidal harbour which served to export timber and agricultural products from the Annapolis Valley.

Every minute now brought fuller daylight into the room; a grey, cold light, for the window faced the south-west, showing a wide stretch of the tidal harbour and the open sea beyond.

As the higher parts of the Plym estuary silted up, ships used the Cattewater moorings and the then tidal harbour at the Plym's mouth instead of Plympton.

Rush has two sandy beaches, called the North Beach and South Beach, which are separated by the rocky head of the peninsula and a small tidal harbour, Rush Harbour.

Before the 19th century improvements and the construction of the non-tidal Floating Harbour, the Avon flowed through the tidal harbour and out through the future location of the Underfall Yard.

The community is located on two sides of the Apple River, a small river which widens dramatically to produce a large, shallow tidal harbour facing Chignecto Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy.

The Tidal Harbour Commissioners report on Irvine Harbour in 1847 contained the information that there was a signal post upon an eminence close to the harbour upon which balls are raised to indicate the state of the tide.