River Fowey

River Fowey
River Fowey at Golant
The course of the River Fowey and neighbouring rivers in Cornwall
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Bodmin Moor
• elevation	298 m (978 ft)
Mouth
• location	Fowey estuary
• coordinates	50°19′40″N 4°38′30″W / 50.32778°N 4.64167°W / 50.32778; -4.64167
Length	40 km (25 mi)
Discharge
• average	4.78 m3/s (169 cu ft/s)

v t e River Fowey
Legend
Bodmin Moor  A30  Siblyback Lake Colliford Reservoir  A38  Bodmin & Wenford Rly  A390  Tudor Bridge Limit of navigation Lostwithiel Cornish Main Line River Lerryn Golant Penpol Creek Mixtow Fowey Polruan English Channel

The River Fowey (/ˈfɔɪ/ ^ⓘ FOY; Standard Written Form: Fowi)^[1] is a river in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

It rises at Fowey Well (originally Cornish: Fenten Fowi, meaning spring of the river Fowey) about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, not far from one of its tributaries rising at Dozmary Pool and Colliford Lake, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens below Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey. The estuary is called Uzell (Cornish: Usel, meaning howling place). It is only navigable by larger craft for the last 7 miles (11 km). There is a ferry between Fowey and Bodinnick. The first road crossing going upstream is in Lostwithiel. The river has seven tributaries, the largest being the River Lerryn. The section of the Fowey Valley between Doublebois and Bodmin Parkway railway station is known as the Glynn Valley (Cornish: Glyn, meaning deep wooded valley). The valley is the route of both the A38 trunk road and the railway line (built by the Cornwall Railway in 1859). The railway line is carried on eight stone viaducts along this stretch.