Bodinnick

A unique and pleasant way to enter or leave Fowey, is to take the Bodinnick Car Ferry and cross the river. Bodinnick is on the east side of the river, and, located near the ferry slipway stands the house in which Daphne du Maurier lived before her marriage. She actually wrote her first novel here, The Loving Spirit, which was based on the Slade family of nearby Polruan. On the right side of the building, below du Maurier’s old room, can be seen a rescued figurehead from a schooner, Jane Slade. Further upstream is Pont Pill, meaning ‘Bridge Creek’. It provided du Maurier with inspiration for her first novel and she travelled through the nearby waters on her wedding day in 1932. Another writer, Leo Walmsey, lived further along the river in a hut and here he wrote his romantic story, Love in the Sun. Sir Arthur Quiller Couch is remembered at Bodinnick by a monolithic memorial which stands at Penleath Point on the coast facing Fowey. The 4-mile Hall Walk takes you from Bodinnick, past Pont Creek and on to Polruan. The original walk was designed as the promenade for Hall Manor, which was built just above Bodinnick for an influential Cornish family in the 13th century.

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