For visitors to the estuary town of Fowey the charming little Bodinnick car ferry offers perhaps the most pleasant entry to the town. Approached by narrow lanes leading down from the B3359, the ferry departs from a slipway adjoining a...

Daphne du Maurier was married in this church in 1932, and it appears in her first novel, The Loving Spirit, written a few years earlier. The church dates largely from the 14th century, with later additions. Notable features include a...

Cry of the Gulls is a family-run gallery, which aims to bring the best fine art and craft by local and national artists to the heart of Fowey. Paintings are exhibited in oil, acrylic and mixed media, and the gallery...

Fowey has inspired many writers, but Daphne du Maurier is probably the best known. This literary centre celebrates her life and illustrates how the atmospheric port of Fowey influenced her work, as well as that of other writers, such as...

If you get the car ferry from Fowey to Bodinnick, you will see a handsome white gabled house high up on the banks of the Fowey River. This is Ferryside, where Daphne du Maurier wrote her first novel, The Loving...

Fore Street runs elegantly up river from Fowey Town Quay, many of its fine buildings hugging the waterfront. Look out for the handsome Georgian Post Office, Noah's Ark, a timbered Elizabethan merchant's house, which, dating from 1457, is one of...

The mouth of the River Fowey is one of the finest estuaries in Cornwall, a mecca for pleasure boating and sailing and still a vibrant working port. China clay from the moors above St Austell is loaded onto ships...

For 50 years Fowey Marine Aquarium has been bringing sea life from the abundant and diverse waters around Fowey to this popular aquarium. Most exhibits are caught in the spring and returned to the sea or river in the autumn....

Fowey River Canoe Expeditions will take you deep into the heart of the beautiful Fowey River Valley. En route are water meadows, salt marshes, nature reserves and bird sanctuaries teeming with wlid life, such as Heron, Wildfowl, Cormorants and Kingfishers....

This is a dynamic art gallery, with a varied and fast-changing programme of exhibitions. At least six major exhibitions a year complement a continual stream of new work by regular artists. Most work exhibited is figurative. Artists include ceramicist, Jane...

Fowey is a beautiful harbour situated at the mouth of a wooded valley. This Town Tour will show you its best bits, from ancient churches to unforgettable views. The tour will also introduce you to the fascinating history of Fowey...

Hall Chapel is one of only a few surviving Medieval chapels in Cornwall. Although it's really a ruin, you can still see the 15th century bell turret and some Medieval stonework. Unfortunately, the oak-cradled roof was blown off in 1976...

Hall Walk's well-trodden path goes back to the 16th century. In fact, the section from Bodinnick to Penleath Point is an early example of an ornamental promenade. Penleath point also has unforgettable views of the Fowey Estuary, and from up...

Ian McCarthy is a Bafta and Emmy award winning wildlife cameraman, with credits including The Blue Planet and Life in the Freezer. This gallery showcases his photographic work. On display are Images of wild nature, from some of the world's...

Place House has been towering over Fowey Harbour for at least 700 years. There are many historical anecdotes relating to it. One tells how, in 1475, one Elizabeth Treffry successfully defended it against the French who were attacking the town....

Pont Pill is a tidal river that slushes through a secluded forest valley to a tiny port. Once a busy trading route, today the river is only navigable at high tide for about a mile and a half, by small...

Q was the pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Scholar, novelist and, most famously, editor of the Oxford Book of English Verse, he lived in Fowey for more than 50 years. The Q Memorial is a tall granite pillar at Penleath...

The River Fowey, which rises on Bodmin moor, is about 40km long. At Fowey, where there is a natural harbour, the river is navigable for about seven miles inland. In fact, the Fowey River Valley has been designated an Area...

St Catherine’s Castle is located on the coast, close to Fowey Harbour in Cornwall. It is one of several small defensive forts that were commissioned along the southern coastline of England by Henry VIII in the 16th Century to...

This grade I listed church has the second tallest tower in Cornwall. Located at the end of the Saints Way, it is named after St Finbarr, the first bishop of Cork, who passed through Fowey in the 7th Century on...

Fowey's loveliest street is lined with historic houses in pastel shades of pink, yellow and blue. Look between them and you will glimpse views of Fowey's picturesque harbour and river, which the Esplanade backs on to. At the southern end...

Fowey is at the end of the Saints Way, and this fine Georgian Post Office is built on the site of a medieval rest house used by pilgrims passing through Fowey on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain....

This gallery in the heart of Fowey showcases the work of local artists, especially those inspired by the town's extraordinary location and the surrounding landscape of coast, sea and woodland. They include Jason Liosatos, Kirsten Jones, Katie Childs, Celia...

Fowey Town Quay is a enchanting mix of fine old buidings, pubs and boat houses, set beside an entrancing Cornish harbour filled with ships, yachts and small craft. If you don't have your own, you can hire one here or...