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The medieval town hall, now occupied by the Fowey Museum The site currently occupied by the town hall complex was originally inhabited by a 14th-century guild chapel. [ 2 ] The first municipal building on the site was a medieval single-storey merchant's house built in rubble masonry and completed in the 15th century.
National Trust, Collection of Antony House, Cornwall. Jonathan Rashleigh (1642–1702), grandson, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1686/7, and several times MP for Fowey, of whom a portrait exists at Antony House, Torpoint, Cornwall, the home of his second wife Jane Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (1635–1692) of Antony. After his death ...
Fowey (/ ˈ f ɔɪ / ⓘ FOY; Cornish: Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees' [1]) is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town has been in existence since well before the Norman invasion, with the local church first established some time in the 7th century; the estuary of the River ...
Sir Charles Augustin Hanson, 1st Baronet (1846 – 17 January 1922) of Fowey was a British politician and 590th Lord Mayor of London. He was born in Cornwall to master mariner Joseph Hanson and Mary Ann Hicks and was educated at Fowey School. He emigrated to Canada, where he made his fortune in the lumber business and returned to Cornwall c.1890.
Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England.Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1457 by Elizabeth Treffry.
Bodinnick looking towards Fowey. Bodinnick lies in the Lanteglos-by-Fowey parish on the banks of the Fowey River. It was important as a ferry terminal for people travelling from Fowey. [6] There is an "Old Ferry Inn" close to the bank of the river here. There is a camp site about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the ferry crossing. [7]
Fowey (UK Parliament constituency) Fowey and Tywardreath (electoral division) Fowey Gallants; Fowey Lifeboat Station; Fowey Primary School; Fowey railway station; Fowey River Academy; Fowey Town Hall; Fowey, Tywardreath and Par (electoral division)
John Rashleigh II (1554 – 12 May 1624 [2]) of Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall, was an English merchant and was MP for Fowey in 1588 and 1597, and was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1608. He was the builder of the first mansion house on the family estate at Menabilly , near Fowey , Cornwall, thenceforth the seat of the family until the present day.