Fowey

Nestled in the mouth of a wooded estuary, Fowey (pronounced Foy) is still very much a working china-clay port as well as a focal point for the sailing fraternity. Increasingly, it's also a favored home of the rich and famous. Good and varied dining and lodging options abound; these are most in demand during Regatta Week in mid-August and the annual Daphne du Maurier Festival in mid-May. The Bodinnick Ferry takes cars as well as foot passengers across the river for the coast road on to Looe.

A few miles west of Fowey are a pair of very different gardens: the Eden Project, a futuristic display of plants from around the world, and the Lost Gardens of Heligan, a revitalized reminder of the Victorian age.

Fowey at a Glance

Elsewhere in The West Country

• Beer
• Bodmin
• Boscastle
• Bristol
• Chagford
• Clovelly
• Dartmoor National Park
• Dartmouth
• Dunster
• Exeter
• Exmoor National Park
• Falmouth
• Glastonbury
• Land's End
• Launceston
• Lizard Peninsula
• Lydford Gorge
• Lynton and Lynmouth

• Mousehole
• Newquay
• Okehampton
• Padstow
• Penzance
• Perranporth
• Plymouth
• Porlock
• Port Isaac
• St. Ives
• St. Mawes
• Tavistock and Environs
• Tintagel
• Topsham
• Torquay
• Totnes
• Trelissick
• Truro
• Wells

See Also

• England
• The West Country