Friends of the Fowey Estuary

The strollers assemble at Lostwithiel ready to walk the four-and-a-half miles down the estuary to St Winnow Point and then up the smaller creek to Lerryn.

Looking back at Lostwithiel. The nearest row of buildings are the dwellings at Brunel Quays. St Bartholomew's Church is just right of centre.

Strolling in the lane near Polmena.

Sheep in lush pasture overlooking Pill Farm.

Pausing at the gate where a private drive leads to Newham Farm.

The approach to Newham Farm.

Receiving encouragement from our leader.

Where the boundary stone marks the division between Lostwithiel Borough and St Winnow Parish. Each year there is a seventeen mile walk to 'beat the bounds' when each boundary stone is visited and each participant given a coin and bent over and struck with a cane by the Mayor.

This surviving custom was originally to imprint the location of the stones in local memory to counter the medieval practice of moving the stones to grab land from neighbouring parishes. Though nowadays the ceremony is merely for historic interest and social intensification, when John Pegg was Mayor apparently he wielded the cane with a relish that some recipients found rather too intense!

View upstream from St Winnow. The approaching cloud would soak us later! Detail used as banner at the top of the page.

John Pegg points out features across the river.

Crossing the river via the stepping stones at Lerryn.

Events Secretary, Terry Eisler, with his plans going well and the heartening prospect of lunch.

The Ship Inn at Lerryn. A bit of a fraud really as this photograph was taken a year earlier!