A town has thrived as a port for hundreds of years, initially as a military town, then when a centre for china clay exports, and in todays world is occupy using trawlers and yachts, the Royal Fowey Yacht Club being on its front.

Fowey lies at a prevent of the Saint's Way, and has ferries across the river to Polruan and Bodinnick. There are numerous historic buildings in a town, including the ruins of St Catherine's Castle, while Readymoney Cove possesses a local beach.

There is a popular legend that Jesus visited Fowey as a child, along by owning Joseph of Arimathea who was the merchandiser camping local tin mines where he got a commercial interest. At a entrance to a Flow of any stream, on the eastern side following the drop-off south-west of St Saviour's Point, there is a cross to commemorate this supposed visit. This cross is marked in super early stock & index charts and was maintained by monks from either Tywardreath.

Fowey elected deuce members to the Unreformed House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation as a rotten borough.