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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]
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.
The borough consisted of the town of Fowey, a seaport and market town, and the neighbouring hamlet of Mixtow.Unlike many of the most notorious Cornish rotten boroughs which were enfranchised in Tudor times, Fowey had once been a town of reasonable size, and returned members to a national council in 1340, although it had to wait until 1571 for representation in Parliament.
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)
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.
It measures 240ft (73.2m) long, 68ft (20.7m) wide and 92ft (28m) high. The roof was originally supported by two rows of pillars but in 1399 Richard II wanted to make the hall more impressive by ...
Plan of Restormel Castle; A – gate; B – guest chambers; C – kitchen; D – hall; E – solar; F – chapel. Located on a spur overlooking the River Fowey, Restormel Castle is an unusually well-preserved example of a circular shell keep, a rare type of fortification built during a short period in the 12th and early 13th centuries. 71 examples are known in England and Wales, of which ...