The Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature takes its inspiration from Daphne du Maurier, the celebrated author who lived in Fowey and wrote about this part of Cornwall in novels like Jamaica Inn and Rebecca.
Visit our website for the calendar of events and venues that include talking music performances, exhibitions, river cruises and guided walks of the historic harbour-side town.
There’s plenty to see and do.
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Date:
6th May 2022
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14th May 2022
Event Registration Info:
The Festival Box Office, Waterstones Festival Book Shop and the Festival Café are located at the Royal Fowey Yacht Club
In this 'you may also like' section we attempt to answer what else can I do? Here you have a list by order of being the closest to the event, some more beaches, things to see and do, places to eat and upcoming events.
The Rann Wartha is a Wetherspoon pub in St Austell, Cornwall. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
You don’t need to spend ages figuring out why this cafe is called The Hidden Hut as it is a wooden hut next to Porthcurnick beach, which is itself an isolated beach. The cafe has a varied menu but has beautifully cooked food on an outdoor stove or in the indoor bakery oven. Note that as this is remote it has no telephone Read more…
Try Dowr is a Wetherspoon pub in Truro, Cornwall. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
The Blue Tomato is a relaxed, comfortable place to eat and drink, located in Rock, Cornwall, it’s over the water from Padstow and only a couple of miles from Polzeath. Read more…
Readymoney Cove is a small sheltered shingle/sand beach with rock pools. Facilities include toilets and slipway with more available in Fowey town itself. Read more…
Polridmouth Cove has two sandy beaches that are joined at low tide although all but disappear at high tide. The cove is on the eastern side of Gribbin Head. There are excellent coast walks. No facilities and an approximate 20 minutes walk from nearest car park along a small track. Read more…
Lantic Bay is a sheltered cove with white sands. Rip currents can make this unsafe for swimming. Parking (National Trust) with toilets a reasonable walk from the beach. The route to beach is not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs. Dogs allowed. Read more…
Polkerris Beach is a privately owned beach within the small village of Polkerris with a stone quay and a small curved sandy beach that comes with watersports facilities. Something for everyone with traditional beach and watersports. Watersports include the ability to hire equipment or to have lessons and include stand up paddleboarding, kayaks and sailing. There is also another small Read more…
Fowey lifeboat station was established in the 1820s and now operates inshore and all weather lifeboats. RNLI shop has restricted opening times and station visits only by appointment. Read more…
St Catherine’s Castle is one of a pair of small artillery forts, built by Thomas Treffry approximately 1540. The D-shaped, stone fortification, equipped with five gun-ports for cannon, overlooked the mouth of the River Fowey. It was protected by a curtain wall and the surrounding cliffs. The castle was closed at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, although Read more…
Tregrehan is a private estate that can only be visited by appointment or on an open day. You get to see aTemperate Rainforest with massive trees, parkland, and a sheltered botanical garden. Read more…
The Eden Project just outside St Austell, Cornwall has artificial biomes filled with plants that are collected from all around the world, and is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit. The Eden Project two giant adjoining domes, the first dome emulates a tropical environment, and the second a Mediterranean environment. From the entrance there is a meandering path with views Read more…
