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River Fowey

The River Fowey is a river in , , . Its source is at Fowey Well about 1 mile north-west of on , not far from one of its tributaries rising at and , passes Lanhydrock House, and , then broadens below before joining the at .
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Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: River
  • Description: UK river in Cornwall, England
  • Also known as: “Fowey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lostwithiel railway station and Lostwithiel Stannary Palace.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of in , England. It is 277 miles 36 chains from the zero point at measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay.

Historic building
Photo: Sic19, CC0.
The Stannary Palace, also known as the Duchy Palace, was a complex of buildings operated by the Dukes of Cornwall as the centre of their administration. The surviving exchequer hall is a Grade I listed building.

Government office
Photo: Sic19, CC0.
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lostwithiel and Sweetshouse.

Town
Photo: Matnkat, CC BY 3.0.
Bodmin a small town of around 15,000 people in the middle of to the south west of . It was the major religious and administrative centre for Cornwall throughout the Middle Ages from the late Saxon period onwards.

Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , England, United Kingdom. It is about one mile south of .

Hamlet
is a hamlet in , England, in the United Kingdom. It lies within the civil parish of , 6 miles southeast of and 2.5 miles north of . is 1 km to the north of the hamlet.

River Fowey

Latitude
50.42062° or 50° 25′ 14″ north
Longitude
-4.67169° or 4° 40′ 18″ west
Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)
Open location code
9C2QC8CH+68
Open­Street­Map ID
way 164640299
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
2649125
Wiki­data ID
Q1212567
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Satellite Map

Discover River Fowey from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“River Fowey” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر فاوي”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Fowey”
  • Basque: “Fowey ibaia”
  • Cebuano: “River Fowey”
  • Cornish: “Fowy”
  • Dutch: “River Fowey”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Fowey”
  • French: “Fowey”
  • Galician: “Fowey”
  • Galician: “Río Fowey”
  • Galician: “Río Fowydh”
  • German: “River Fowey”
  • Italian: “Fiume Fowey”
  • Italian: “Fowey”
  • Polish: “Fowey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fowey”
  • Swahili: “Mto Fowey”
  • Swedish: “River Fowey”
  • Welsh: “Afon Fowey”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Restormel Roman Fort and Lostwithiel Bowling Club.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “River Fowey”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.