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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.
Fowey Town Hall, on the Town Quay, was completed in 1787. [12] Fowey elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation as a rotten borough, it having lost its borough corporation a few years before. [13]
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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.
A ferry service operates between Fowey and Bodinnick and gives its name to The Old Ferry Inn, [19] a 400-year-old building on the steep lane down to the riverside. [20] A 4 miles (6.4 km) walk along the hill tops connects Bodinnick to Polruan in the south. [21] In Bodinnick Hall Place is a Methodist chapel now in use as a shippen. Features of ...
Born in Plymouth, Devon as Joseph Thomas Austen, to Joseph Austen (d 1786), a former Mayor of Plymouth and Susanna née Treffry (d 1842). He changed his name by deed poll, after the death of his mother’s brother William Esco Treffry of Fowey in 1808, when he inherited the family estate at Place House, Fowey.
A passenger service from Fowey to Newquay via St Blazey started on 1 June 1874. [2] The station had two platforms with loading docks and a goods shed at the St Blazey end. [3] It was situated at Caffa Mill Pill on the north side of the town by the River Fowey. Goods trains from St Blazey passed through the station to the jetties where ships ...