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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graham Proud, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Keven Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Catherine’s Castle and Fowey Museum.
St Catherine’s Castle
Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Catherine's Castle is a Henrician castle in Cornwall, England, built by Thomas Treffry between approximately 1538 and 1540, in response to fears of an invasion of England by France and the Holy Roman Empire.
St Catherine’s Point light
Lighthouse
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Catherine’s Point light is a lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Par and Polruan.
Par
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Par is in South Cornwall. A village and fishing port at the edge of Par Sands between St Austell and Fowey and half a mile from Twywardreath village and nearby to the hamlet of Polmear, at the bottom of Polmear Hill.
Polruan
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polruan is a coastal village in the parish of Lanteglos-by-Fowey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbouring village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4-mile walk along the hill tops.
Golant
Village
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Golant is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the west bank of the River Fowey and in the civil parish of St Sampson. Golant is about two miles north of Fowey and seven miles east of St Austell.
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″ northLongitude
-4.6366° or 4° 38′ 12″ westPopulation
2,130Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FOYOpen location code
9C2Q89P7+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 21554314OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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: “Fowey”
- Chinese: “福伊”
- Cornish: “Fowy”
- Cornish: “Fowydh”
- Cornish: “Langordhow”
- Czech: “Fowey”
- Dutch: “Fowey”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوى”
- French: “Fowey”
- Galician: “Fowey”
- German: “Fowey”
- Gujarati: “ફોવે”
- Irish: “Fowey”
- Irish: “Fowydh”
- Italian: “Fowey”
- Japanese: “フォーウィー”
- Japanese: “フォイ”
- 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”
- 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: “فوویی”
- Vietnamese: “Fowey”
- Welsh: “Fowey”
- Welsh: “Fowydh”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Fowey”. Photo: Keven Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.