12 Facts About Fowey

Fowey is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

People of Fowey generally sided with the Royalists during the English Civil War, but in 1644 the Earl of Essex brought a Parliamentarian army to Lostwithiel and occupied the peninsula around Fowey.

Fowey had to wait another forty years before it saw equivalent development, but its natural deep-water anchorage and a rail link soon gave it an advantage over the shallow artificial harbours nearer to the mines and china clay works.

On 1 June in that year, the broad gauge Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway was opened to new jetties situated above Carne Point, and in 1873, the.

Fowey was the main port for loading ammunition for the US 29th Division that landed on Omaha Beach on D Day during the Second World War.

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Fowey elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation as a rotten borough, it having lost its borough corporation a few years before.

Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England.

Fowey is in the South Coast of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Fowey has thrived as a port for hundreds of years, initially as a trading and naval town, then as the centre for china clay exports.

Fowey has been the inspiration for many authors, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Daphne du Maurier, Leo Walmsley and Kenneth Grahame.

Michael Corrigan's novel, Brewer's Odyssey, 2019, has a few scenes set in Fowey, including the ghostly presence of Daphne du Maurier.

Various visual artists have had close connection with Fowey and lived there, including Fred Yates, Andrew Litten Amanda Hoskin who primarily paints the local coastline.