Qualla: Fowey https://qualla.com/fowey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Fowey https://qualla.com/fowey Fowey: Introduction https://qualla.com/fowey/ In August 1644, King Charles I climbed the path along Hall Walk above Polruan and looked down at Fowey across the river. A Parliamentarian musket ball missed him by inches. The town below him was an old town even then, a deepwater harbour on the south Cornish coast where the medieval Fowey Gallants had been licensed to raid French shipping during the Hundred Years' War, and where Breton pirates had returned the favour by sacking the place in 1457. Three centuries after Charles, Daphne du Maurier would walk these same hills, looking down at a different river. She would set her novels here, Rebecca among them. The harbour kept changing shape: from wartime fortress to fishing town, from privateer den to china clay port, from D-Day ammunition depot to literary pilgrimage. The estuary keeps doing what estuaries do, taking ships in and out, century after century.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/fowey-wp/gbuw-fowey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fowey: The Fowey Gallants https://qualla.com/fowey/ Fowey was already a working harbour at the Norman invasion. The Domesday Book records manors at Penventinue and Trenant; a priory was established nearby at Tywardreath; the prior granted Fowey a town charter. The natural deepwater harbour, formed when meltwaters at the end of the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/fowey-wp/gbuw-fowey-the-fowey-gallants.mp3 0:06 2 full Fowey: Charles I on the Hill https://qualla.com/fowey/ Most of Fowey sided with the Royalists when the English Civil War began. In 1644 the Earl of Essex brought a Parliamentary army down through Lostwithiel and occupied the peninsula around Fowey. The Royalists arrived in August and surrounded him. King Charles I himself rode out fr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/fowey-wp/gbuw-fowey-charles-i-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Fowey: China Clay and the D-Day Sidings https://qualla.com/fowey/ After the medieval boom, Fowey's fortunes faded. Trade went to Plymouth. Fishing and smuggling took over. Then, in the nineteenth century, came china clay. The white kaolin clay quarried from the moors around St Austell needed deepwater ports for export, and Fowey had the harbour...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/fowey-wp/gbuw-fowey-china-clay-and-the-d-day-sidings.mp3 0:06 4 full Fowey: Manderley and the Writers https://qualla.com/fowey/ Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, known to literature as Q, settled in Fowey in 1891 and stayed for fifty-three years. He was professor of English literature at Cambridge, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse, and lived in The Haven on the Esplanade, writing fiction and influential cr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/fowey-wp/gbuw-fowey-manderley-and-the-writers.mp3 0:06 5 full Fowey: Notable Souls and the Aquarium https://qualla.com/fowey/ Mary Bryant was born in Fowey in 1765 and transported as a convict to New South Wales, where she became one of the first to escape from the new colony, rowing a stolen boat with her husband, two children, and seven others over three thousand miles to Timor. Antony Hewish, born in...

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