‘Promenade’ or ‘pleasure’ piers were predominantly an English and Welsh seaside phenomenon. However, a large number of structures, additional to those detailed in the main sections of this website, but referred to nonetheless as ‘piers’ or ‘jetties’, were built throughout Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. In the main, these structures were built as landing stages and, as well as making their traditional appearances around the coastline, were to be found ‘inland’ along rivers and their estuaries or along lake shores.
This listing does not include piers constructed solely for military, industrial or lifeboat use. It does, however, include some private jetties.
Construction and demolition dates are given where known and links to reference websites and/or photographic images of the piers will gradually be provided where available. Names in Bold type indicate particularly attractive and interesting structures. The icon indicates a separate additional link to the pier via Google Streetview.
SCOTLAND PIERS – SURVIVING
SCOTLAND PIERS – DERELICT or LOST
Aberdour | Abriachan | Acharn (1889-Lost) | Ardeonaig (1889-lost) | Ardesier(1900s-Lost) |
Ardlui | Ardrishaig(Pre 1817-1993) | Ardrossan Montgomerie | Ardrossan Winton | Ardtalnaig (1889-lost) |
Arrochar(1850-cld 1977) | Auchenlocan (1879-lost) | Ballchullish (Lost) | Balloch Bay | Banavie (1822-) |
Baremman (1878) | Berry’s Pier (lost) | Bonawe (closed) | Boath of Toft | Bowling (1848-) |
Cairnie – derelict | Carrick Castle (1877-) | Clynder (c1866-1892/3) | Coulport (1880-Lost) | Cove (1852-cld.1946) |
Craigback Jetty | Craigendoran (1882) | Crarae (1880) | Creggans | Douglas (c1858/9-) |
Dumbarton Castle (1875) | Fairlie (c1840s-Lost) | Fearnan (1882-lost) | Ford Pier (1876-ruined) | Garelochhead(1845) |
Greenock Princes (-1960s) | Hole of Oddsta | Inch Garvie | Inchyra | Innellan (1850-ruined) |
Inverchapel | Inverfarigaig(1822-cld 1939) | Invergloy | Invermorriston(1822-cld 1939) | Kenmore (1882-) |
Killin (1882-Lost) | Kirn (1845-1993) | Kyleakin (1881-1903) | Lawers (1889-disused) | Lismore |
Loch Awe (1880-) | Locheckhead | Lochgoilhead (1850-) | Lochskiport (1879-derelict) | Machrie Bay |
Rosneath (1845-1942) | Row (Rhu) | St Ives | Sandbank | Shandon (1886-1969) |
Skaill | Skelmorlie (1877) | Skipness (1879-) | Spinningdale | Strachur (1878-lost pre-1914) |
Strome Ferry (1870-1937) | Tollie | Toward (1863-1922) | Whiting Bay (1899 c.1962) |
NORTHERN IRELAND PIERS
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Bangor North (1895-1980) | Bangor Eisenhower (1983-) | Holywood (1869-1883) | Portaferry | Warrenpoint (1908-1976) |
ENGLAND RIVER / LAKE PIERS
HUMBER | ||||
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Hull Minerva | Hull Victoria/Corporation New | Holland (1848-) | ||
LAKE DISTRICT | ||||
Coniston (1981-) | Coniston Brantwood (1984-) | Coniston Park-a-Moor(1981-) | Loweswater | Ullswater Howtown(1877-) |
Ullswater Glenridding(1877-) | Ullswater Pooley Bridge(1877-) | Windermere Ambleside(1869-) | Windermere Bowness(1869-) | Windermere Bowness Pier 2 |
Windermere Bowness Pier 3 | Windermere Ferry Hotel(Lost) | Windermere Lake Side(1869-) | Windermere Low Wood | Windermere Storrs |
MEDWAY | ||||
Blue Boar | Chatham Sun | Esplanade | Gillingham Old Admiralty | Laser |
Port Victoria (Lost) | Queenborough(Lost)(1876-1955) | Rochester | St Mary’s | Sheerness(Lost)(1835-1971) |
Strood (1905-) | Thunderbolt | Upnor | ||
MERSEY | ||||
Birkenhead (Woodside) | Eastham (1898-) | Egremont (1876-Lost) | Liverpool Pier-Head(1842-) | Monks Ferry (1838-) |
New Ferry(1865-Lost) | Rock Ferry(1709 – 1957) | Seacombe (Wallsey) (1876-) | Tranmere (1877-1904) | |
THAMES | ||||
Bankside (Lost) | Barrier Gardens (Sargeants) | Battersea Festival | Battersea Pleasure Park(Lost) | Battersea Square (Lost) |
Blackfriars | Butler’s Wharf | Canary Wharf | Carlyle Battersea Bridge(Lost) | Charing Cross |
Chelsea Cadogan | Chelsea Harbour | Cherry Garden | Commercial Dock | Dartford Long Reach (Lost) |
Erith (Lost) | Gravesend Marine Parade(lost) | Gravesend Royal Terrace | Gravesend Stuarts Rd | |
Gravesend West Street | Great Eastern (Lost) | Greenhithe (Lost) | Greenwich | Gallion’s Reach |
Hammersmith | Hammersmith Bridge (Lost) | Kew | Kingston | Lambeth |
Lambeth L.F.B. H.Q. | Limehouse | London Bridge (Lost) | London Bridge City | London City Airport |
M.A.B. Pier (Lost) | Millwall | Nelson (Lost) | Nine Elms (Lost) | North Woolwich |
North Woolwich Free Ferry | Old Swan (Lost) | Pimlico Grosvenor Rd(Lost) | Prospect | Putney |
Putney Bridge (Lost) | Richmond Landing Stage | Rosherville (Lost) | Rotherhithe (Lost) | Royal Festiv.Hall/Rodney(Lost) |
Royal Naval Reserve | St Helens (Lost) | St Katherine’s | Scandic Crown Hotel | Scantlin (Closed) |
South Woolwich (Lost) | South Woolwich Free Ferry | St Helena (Richmond) | Swan Lane | Swan Wharf |
Temple | Tilbury Riverside | Tunnel (Wapping) | Tucks Richmond Bridge | Upper Charing Cross |
Victoria (Lost) | Wandsworth | Wapping (2) | Waterloo | West India Dock |
Westminster | ||||
TYNE | ||||
North Shields | South Shields |
JETTIES
Bournemouth (1850-1970) | Clacton (Lost)(1898-1940) | Dover Marina Pier | Drakes Island (1939-) | East Cowes Trinity(1845-Lost) | ||
Great Yarmouth (1808-) | Littlehampton | Morecambe Stone Jetty(1848-) | Osborne (Lost) | Plymouth Phoenix Wharf | ||
Porthcawl Harbour Pier | Ryde Apley (Lost)(1873-) | Sandbanks/Poole (4) | Starcross | Trefor | ||
Warsash | Westcliff (Lost) | Weston-S-M SeaQuarium (1995-) |
RAILWAY STEAMER PIERS
Arnside (1857-) | Barry (1889-1970s) [www.oldukphotos.com] |
Bembridge Harbour(1870s-1928) | Burton (Pembs.) | Cowes Fountain(1841-Lost) |
Deganwy (1847-1940) | Dover Admiralty (1851-) | Dover Prince of Wales (1902-) |
Exmouth (1865-) | |
Fort Victoria (1856-derelict) | Grange-over-Sands/Bayley Lane (1870-Lost) | Grange-over-Sands/Clare House (1893-1928) | Harwich Trinity House(1864-) | Ilfracombe (1873-) |
New Passage (1864-Lost) | Plymouth Saltash | Portishead (1867-Lost) | Rottingdean (1896-1909) | Sandbanks Haven (1898-1940) |
Sheerness | Shotley (1894-) | Stokes Bay (1855-) | Tollesbury (1905-1921) | Torquay Haldon (1870-) |
Treharne’s (1858-1902) | Woody Bay(Devon)(1897-1902) |