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Geography
Fowey is in the South Coast (Eastern Section) of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB is an area of countryside with significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland It lies at the end of the Saints' Way and has ferries across the river to Polruan (foot) and Bodinnick (vehicle). The Saints' Way ( Cornish: Forth an Syns is a Long-distance footpath in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Polruan (Porthruan is a small village in the parish of Lanteglos by Fowey in Cornwall, England, UK. Bodinnick is a village in Cornwall, England There are many historic buildings in the town, including the ruins of St Catherine's Castle, while Readymoney Cove possesses a local beach. St Catherine's Castle is a small fort commissioned by Henry VIII. Readymoney Cove is a sandy beach to the south of the harbour town of Fowey, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Popular legend has it that Jesus visited Fowey as a child, along with Joseph of Arimathea who was a merchant visiting local tin mines in which he had a commercial interest. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Joseph of Arimathea was according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' Crucifixion At the entrance to the River, on the eastern side below the cliffs to the south-west of St Saviour's Point, there is a cross to commemorate this supposed visit. This cross is marked on very early charts and was maintained by monks from Tywardreath. Tywardreath is a small hilltop village in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The cross is known locally as "Punches Cross", supposedly derived from the name of Pontius Pilate.
A hundred yards west of the lighthouse on the west of the harbour entrance, about thirty feet below the top of the cliff edge and broadly concealed, is a small grass area known as "Johnny May's Chapel". This name is believed to be that of a Methodist preacher at the time when non-Conformism was persecuted.
Economy
Fowey has thrived as a port for hundreds of years, initially as a military town, then as the centre for china clay exports (that business is slowly diminishing, as more and more of China Clay is being imported from Brazil). A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences) or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the Weather or are stored A military is an Organization authorized by its Nation to use force usually including use of Weapons in defending its Country (or by attacking Kaolinite is a Clay mineral with the chemical composition Al 2 Si 2 O 5( OH)4 Fowey is the home of the Treffry family who live in Place House, from whom prolific 1800s Cornish industrialist Joseph Treffry came. Place House is a Grade One listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall. Joseph Austen Treffry (born 1782 died 1850 was an engineer mining adventurer and industrialist who became a significant landowner in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Today Fowey is busy with trawlers and yachts, the Royal Fowey Yacht Club being on its front. A commercial trawler is a commercial Fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. A yacht is a recreational boat It designates two rather different classes of Watercraft, sailing and power yachts The seafood served in many of its restaurants comes from the Fowey estuary, or the sea just outside it.
A few miles away from the town is Golant's 'Sawmill Recording Studios', which has been frequented by the likes of Oasis, the Stone Roses and Muse, as well as local bands. Oasis are an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991 The Stone Roses were an English Alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1984 Muse are
Administration
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 [2]. The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act of 1832. The Representation of the People Act 1832, commonly known as the Reform Act 1832, was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system The term "rotten" or "decayed" borough referred to a parliamentary borough or Constituency in Great Britain and Ireland It was restored as a municipal borough in 1913, and then was merged with the nearby and much larger St Austell in 1968 to form the borough of St. Austell with Fowey. Municipal boroughs were a type of Local government which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974 in Northern Ireland from 1840 to St Austell (Sen Ostell is a town in Cornwall, England, UK. St Austell has a population of 22658 (according to the 2001 census This was itself in 1974 replaced with the Restormel Borough, and Fowey now constitutes a civil parish [3]
Education
Fowey has two schools: Fowey Primary School and Fowey Community College, both of which are in at Windmill Road. Twinning Restormel is twinned by oath which can be viewed in the council offices in St Austell, with Kreis Dithmarschen.
Culture
The Daphne du Maurier [1] Festival of Art and Literature [2] is held every May; this being her birth month, the dates for the 2008 Festival are Thursday 8th May to Saturday 17th May.
Fowey has a regatta in the third week of August every year. The town has held a Christmas Market since 2005. A Christmas market, also known as Christkindlmarkt, Christkindlesmarkt, Christkindlmarket, and Weihnachtsmarkt The Fowey Fringe Festival started in 2007, an acoustic musical festival takes place in the pubs, restaurants,sailing clubs and streets in the town of Fowey. Visiting musicians and other performers are invited to participate.
Fowey has been the inspiration for many authors including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Daphne du Maurier and Kenneth Grahame. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (ˌkwɪlɚˈkuʧ ( 21 November 1863 - 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer, who published under the Daphne du Maurier Lady Browning DBE ( 13 May, 1907 – 19 April, 1989) (ˈdæfnɪ du ˈmɒɹieɪ was a British Kenneth Grahame ( March 8, 1859 – July 6, 1932) was a British Writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows
The surrounding coastline of Fowey is also popular with fishermen and spear-fishermen. Many sea creatures can be seen all around the Cornish shoreline, including mullet, bass, mackerel, lobsters and cuttlefish. Many of the species can be seen in the Fowey Aquarium in the heart of the town, which includes a very rare Albino Bull Huss.
Being situated in close proximity to the Sawmill Studios in Golant, Fowey often plays host to many musicians.
Residents
In common with most of Cornwall, Fowey's house prices have escalated as non-locals have bought holiday homes in the county. Residents with homes in or around Fowey include:
- Richard and Judy
- Janet Ellis
- Lenny Henry and Dawn French - paid £ 2. Richard Madeley (born May 13, 1956) and Judith 'Judy' Finnigan (born May 16, 1948) are married Television presenters. Janet Ellis (born 16 September 1955) is a television presenter and former actress who appeared on BBC children's television during the 1980s Lenworth George Henry CBE, (born 29 August 1958 is a British Writer, Comedian and Actor. Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957 is a Welsh actress and Comedian. 4 million for an 1865 seaside mansion in October 2006 [4]
- Gloria Hunniford [5]
- Cliff Richard
See also
References
External links
- Fowey to Mevagissey summer passenger ferry
- Restormel Council
- Fowey Market
- Informations, photos of Fowey
- Fowey Fringe Festival
- Fowey - commercial tourism site
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