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Fowey

British

/ fɔɪ /

noun

a resort and fishing village in SW England, in Cornwall, linked administratively with St Austell from 1968 to 1974. Pop: 2064 (2001)

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The youngest of three sons, Antony Hewish was born in Fowey, Cornwall, on May 11, 1924, and grew up in the coastal town of Newquay.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

Saturday that he came across a man on a makeshift raft in the vicinity of Fowey Rocks.

From Fox News • Aug. 30, 2021

Mary Broad escaped the gallows and is believed to have ended her days back in Fowey, the fishing village in Cornwall where she was born.

From National Geographic • Dec. 30, 2017

The author first came across Menabilly during a family visit to the Cornish coastal town of Fowey in 1926.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017

Here, all is in chaos: The Governor of Maryland is fled Annapolis, brought by the Fowey man-of-war to our camp.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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