Lostwithiel Quay slip
This slipway is on Quay Street at Polscoe, just south of Lostwithiel, at the head of the River Fowey's tidal estuary. Fowey Harbour Commissioners' jurisdiction runs from the harbour mouth up to the tidal limit at Lostwithiel's medieval bridge. Lostwithiel was a working river port until siltation reduced navigation, and a horse-drawn tramway once carried ore from the Restormel mine down to the town quay.
Immediately upstream of the slip stands Lostwithiel's medieval bridge, a Grade I listed structure largely dating from the mid-15th century, with five arches spanning thirteen feet each and a roadway eleven feet wide; an eighteenth-century flood arch was added later, and the bridge is recorded as Ancient Monument no. 65.
The upper estuary at Lostwithiel lies within the Upper Fowey and Pont Pill Marine Conservation Zone, one of the smallest in England at two square kilometres, protecting a rocky estuarine habitat that is rare in the South West together with an area of saltmarsh at the head of the estuary. Most of the wider Fowey estuary is also designated a Bass Nursery Area.
A branch railway carrying china clay traffic from Lostwithiel to Fowey follows the river's west bank for part of its route.
Nearby
Independent coffee shop on Queen Street, Lostwithiel.
Adults-only touring and camping park near Lanlivery, about 1.5 miles from Lostwithiel; open 1 April to 31 October.
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