Duchy owns Penryn river foreshore and bed

10:57am Wednesday 16th April 2008

UP at Exeter University, as a part-time mature student, as already learnt by Packet readers, I carried out, commencing in 2005, an ecological survey of local Cornish waters in the immediate area of Penryn River and its oyster fishery.

Part of my research had involved ownership of the foreshore and bed/fundus and its relativity to the future of Penryn River with its above-HWM footways, and being able to provide a recreation area compatible with the shellfisheries.

This side of the new year I decided that it was time to tidy up my study so that it could benefit a wider audience, maybe, and wrote to The Crown Estate Martine Team Co-ordinator at the London office, and asked if their records agreed with my conclusion of ownership.

I was very pleased to receive a reply from The Crown Estate at the end of March because its content compounded my hard academic work.

I would like to share the following sentence with your readers for all of our mutual benefits: "We have checked our records and agree with you that it appears that the Duchy of Cornwall is the owner of the foreshore and bed of the River Penryn from Islington Wharf, Penryn, to Kiln Quay, Flushing."

P G Remy Hickes West Street Penryn.

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