page_title: River Fowey
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: River Fowey / History
caption_attribution_description: English: King Doniert's Stone site, near St. Cleer in Cornwall, UK. The stone of the right is the actual "Doniert's Stone" and bears an inscription which tells that King Doniert had the cross built for the good of his soul[1]. The stone on the left is called the "Other Half Stone" [2].
context_page_description: The River Fowey is a river in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
  It rises at Fowey Well about 1-mile north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, not far from one of its tributaries rising at Dozmary Pool and Colliford Lake, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey. The estuary is called Uzell. It is only navigable by larger craft for the last 7 miles. There is a ferry between Fowey and Bodinnick. The first road crossing going upstream is in Lostwithiel. The river has seven tributaries, the largest being the River Lerryn. The section of the Fowey Valley between Doublebois and Bodmin Parkway railway station is known as the Glynn Valley. The valley is the route of both the A38 trunk road and the railway line. The railway line is carried on eight stone viaducts along this stretch.
context_section_description: Donyarth (Latin: Doniert) or Dungarth (died 875) was the last recorded king of Cornwall. He is thought to be the 'Doniert' recorded on an inscription on King Doniert's Stone, a 9th-century cross shaft which stands in St Cleer parish in Cornwall, although he is not given any title in the inscription.
  According to the Annales Cambriae, he drowned in 875. His death may have been an accident, but it was recorded in Ireland as a punishment for collaboration with the Vikings, who were harrying the West Saxons and briefly occupied Exeter in 876 before being driven out by Alfred the Great. Philip Payton states that one must imagine that he drowned in the River Fowey, near King Doniert's Stone.
caption: King Doniert's Stone (2007)
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