Angled Stones
Not only fishing boats are moored [if that is the right word for sitting on the bottom] in the harbour.
Note the angled stones, said to help resist wave pressure, in the historic harbour wall. Thomas Telford is usually given credit for that but it seems the man really responsible was engineer William Jessop with Thomas Telford acting as a consulting engineer on behalf of the government. Permission to build a stone harbour to replace the vulnerable and storm damaged wooden jetties followed a petition to parliament by local landowner Lord Radnor, who saw it as potential anchorage for ships in the Napoleonic Wars. The western pier was begun in 1808 and finished in 1810, and the South Pier completed by 1820. The Grade II listed East Pier was added in 1829.
Angled Stones
Not only fishing boats are moored [if that is the right word for sitting on the bottom] in the harbour.
Note the angled stones, said to help resist wave pressure, in the historic harbour wall. Thomas Telford is usually given credit for that but it seems the man really responsible was engineer William Jessop with Thomas Telford acting as a consulting engineer on behalf of the government. Permission to build a stone harbour to replace the vulnerable and storm damaged wooden jetties followed a petition to parliament by local landowner Lord Radnor, who saw it as potential anchorage for ships in the Napoleonic Wars. The western pier was begun in 1808 and finished in 1810, and the South Pier completed by 1820. The Grade II listed East Pier was added in 1829.