Fowey
Fowey is a small fishing town on the coast of South Cornwall, situated at the mouth of the river Fowey. It is set on the west side of a steep valley, so be prepared for much walking up and down.
- Type: Town with 2,130 residents
- Description: small town at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Fowey, Cornwall”, “Langordhow”, and “フォイ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St Catherine’s Castle and Fowey Museum.
Church of St Fimbarrus, Fowey
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Par and Polruan.
Fowey
- Category: locality
- Location: South Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.3358° or 50° 20′ 9″ north
Longitude
-4.6366° or 4° 38′ 12″ west
Population
2,130
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB FOY
Open location code
9C2Q89P7+89
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fowey” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوي”
- Armenian: “Ֆոուեյ”
- Asturian: “Fowey”
- Basque: “Fowey”
- Belarusian: “Фоі”
- Bengali: “ফোয়ে”
- Breton: “Fowydh”
- Cebuano: “Fowey”
- Chinese: “福伊”
- Cornish: “Fowy”
- Cornish: “Fowydh”
- Czech: “Fowey”
- Dutch: “Fowey”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوى”
- French: “Fowey”
- Galician: “Fowey”
- German: “Fowey”
- Gujarati: “ફોવે”
- Irish: “Fowydh”
- Italian: “Fowey”
- Japanese: “フォーウィー”
- Kannada: “ಫೋವೆ”
- Korean: “포웨이”
- Ladin: “Fowey”
- Latin: “Fowey”
- Lithuanian: “Fovis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fowey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fowey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fowey”
- Norwegian: “Fowey”
- Persian: “فوی، کورنوال”
- Persian: “فوی”
- Polish: “Fowey”
- Portuguese: “Fowey”
- Romanian: “Fowey”
- Russian: “Фои”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fowydh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fowey”
- Silesian: “Fowey”
- Slovenian: “Fowey”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوی، کورنوال”
- Spanish: “Fowey”
- Swedish: “Fowey”
- Tamil: “போவெய்”
- Telugu: “ఫోవే”
- Turkish: “Fowey”
- Urdu: “فووے”
- Vietnamese: “Fowey”
- Welsh: “Fowey”
- Welsh: “Fowydh”
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Places to explore: Bodinnick and Hillhay.
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