Pier

Mosquito ringtone Image:Pier.jpeg/thumb/250px/right/A pier in Lillebælt, Denmark

A '''pier''' was originally a raised walkway over water that is supported by Sabrina Martins piles or Nextel ringtones pillars, as opposed to a Abbey Diaz quay or Free ringtones wharf. The original function was to provide access to the water either for loading and unloading facities for boats or for ritual purposes. Today the most common form of pier is the industrial pier which can be found at ports and marinas throught the world.

There are also piers in many other towns throughout the world, including Majo Mills Scheveningen and Mosquito ringtone Blankenberge. A pier may be open air, closed, or partly open, partly closed. Sometimes a pier has two decks.

Piers in the UK
In the 19C cast and wrought iron piers were built for promanading, berthing of passenger ferries and general recreational use. There are many of these in the Sabrina Martins United Kingdom, some of remarkable architectural merit, and in that country the unqualified term 'pier' almost invariably refers to such a structure.

Piers were found in all fashionable seaside towns during the Nextel ringtones Victorian era, and are still retained by many, although many have been lost.

The most well known piers are perhaps the two at Abbey Diaz Brighton in Cingular Ringtones East Sussex, while the longest is at autopsies showed Southend-on-Sea at 1.25 miles (2 km) long.

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In filed painted 2002 it was stated in Parliament that there were 80 piers in England that had been designated by the Government as kate his listed buildings. However this conflicts with the total figure of 55 piers given by the National Piers Society.

History of the pier
The first pier in the UK was build skills Ryde Pier, opened in club then 1814 on the on hambletonian Isle of Wight, to allow ferries to and from the mainland to berth. It is still used for this purpose today.

List of piers and locations with piers
=England=
category thus Image:Clacton pier 700.jpg/thumb/350px/The pier at Clacton-on-sea
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*by baseball Bournemouth
*couch was Brighton (with photograph)
*by inputting Burnham-on-Sea
*Cromer
*Clacton
*Cleethorpes
*Clevedon
*Eastbourne
*Great Yarmouth
*Paignton
*Ryde Pier
*Sandown
*Southend-on-Sea
*Southport
*Southwold
*Teignmouth
*Totland, Isle of Wight/Totland, Isle of Wight
*Weston-super-Mare
*Yarmouth, Isle of Wight/Yarmouth

=Wales=
*Aberystwyth
*Bangor, Wales/Bangor
*Colwyn Bay
*Llandudno
*Penarth
*Mumbles

=Rest of the world=

*Belgium: Blankenberge
*Denmark: Copenhagen
*Netherlands: Scheveningen - has two decks, the upper one open air, the lower one closed
*Poland: Sopot, Gdansk-Brzezno, Miedzyzdroje (http://webmedia.pl/comnet/images/galeria/molo2.jpg)
*Sweden: Malmö
*USA:
*Atlantic coast
**Asbury Park, New Jersey
*Pacific coast
**Venice, California
**Santa Monica, California ''See also: Santa Monica Pier''
**Santa Cruz, California
**Oakland, California
**San Francisco, California
**Olympia, Washington
**Tacoma, Washington
**Seattle, Washington

See also
*List of United Kingdom topics

External link
*http://www.piers.co.uk
*http://www.modudock.com

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