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3 unusual facts about Fowey


Eubranchus exiguus

This species was found in considerable abundance in Fowey Harbour on Laminaria saccharina.

Hired armed ship Harlequin

In late May the privateer Harlequin, under the command of Captain Jenkins, arrived at Fowey from Oporto.

Lanteglos-by-Fowey

The South West Coast Path runs along the southern coasts of the parish and much of the southern part of the parish lies in the Polruan to Polperro Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by the National Trust.


Fowey Lifeboat Station

In August 1928 the boat was declared unfit for service and so a Watson Class motor lifeboat that was intended for Thurso Lifeboat Station, the H.C.J., was stationed at Fowey for a few months until Fowey's own boat, the C.D.E.C., arrived in December.

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor

He is said by some, especially William Sanderson, to have persuaded the Earl of Essex to make his ill-fated march into Cornwall in 1644; he escaped with the earl from Fowey after the defeat of the parliamentary army in the first days of September 1644.

Joseph Treffry

He did not complete his education at Exeter College, Oxford and returned to Fowey and started the rebuild the ancestral home, Place.

Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway

The route would run alongside the River Fowey and so would have gentle gradients and few engineering problems apart from some bridges across small tributary rivers, and new quays at Carne Point, just outside Fowey.

Lostwithiel railway station

The passenger service was withdrawn on 4 January 1965 but the line remains open to carry china clay to the jetties at Fowey.

Railtour

Locations – such as Carne Point at Fowey, Cornwall – which have not seen passenger trains for several decades, or locations that have never had a public passenger service – such as the MOD depot at Long Marston – can be traversed by such trains.

Rashleigh family

After his father Phillip Rashleigh purchased the manor of Trenant in 1545, Phillip moved his family from Devon to Cornwall to take advantage of the dissolution of the monasteries by buying and re-selling the land acquired around Fowey, it was from this land that John Rashleigh commenced building Menabilly from land acquired in Fowey (from which Menabilly was later completed in its construction by his son Jonathan Rashleigh).

Readymoney

Readymoney Cove - a beach and settlement near Fowey, Cornwall, UK

Restormel Castle

The castle was taken by Sir Richard Grenville, a local member of the gentry who had been the member of Parliament for Fowey before the war.

Treffry

Sir John Treffry of Fowey fought under the Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy, and captured the Royal Banner of France, for which he was awarded the honour of Knight Banneret on the battlefield, by the Black Prince and his Coat of Arms charged with the fleur-de-lis of France.


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