Audioguía Lostwithiel - seige 1644

If you are parked outside Mid Cornwall Gallery press start on the app and turn LEFT out of this car park, your audio tour will start automatically.

If you are not yet at this car park, put the post code PL24 2NG (the car park of St Mary's church and the Mid Cornwall Gallery) into Google maps and drive there and park up. The audio tour will start automatically once you have pressed start.   

If you have not done so already, connect your phone to a speaker or, better still, to your car sound system. 

  Thanks and credits: 

This tour has been 3 years in the making and test driven by at least a dozen lovely local people whose feedback has been indispensable. Thanks also are due to The Sealed Knot, especially Maggie and Clive, and also David Ingram for his small pipes and Fife music. Also to the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the Lostwithiel Business Group, i-Mayflower from Plymouth and everyone else who invested in our successful Crowdfunder pitch in summer 2021. Oh and if you wondered why our tours are called by-the-way, it’s because they are placed ‘beside the way’ ( main roads in our case). The information for this tour came from various sources including Lostwithiel's museum, Barbara Frazer's book - The New Book of Lostwithiel: Cornwall's Medieval Capital, and various websites available online including the Battlefields of Britain, British Battles.com, The BCW Project UK, the Battlefields Resource centre and Historic England. Also useful was Lostwithiel 'the fairest of small cities' - a historic characterisation 2008 and thanks also to the Lostwithiel Town Council for supporting this tour. Thanks obviously to the team : Ryan Davies  (sound recordist) , Emily Attenburrow (voice of Ann Teague), Iain Marshall voice of John Teague and Simon Ford who created our website, Crowdfunder animation video, flyers and logo. In Lostwithiel we were grateful to Angie May for assisting us with our Cornish accents and to John Pegg, Dave Pickford, Jill Robbins, Toby Songer, Bran Howell, Mark Kelly, Ross Morcom, Rupert and George Warwick, Jeff Pearce (social media), Jamie Jenord and Angela Warwick. The tour software was provided by IZI tours who have been extremely helpful. Thanks everyone.

There is a booklet available based upon the history of Lostwithiel  called 'Walks around Lostwithiel' and another called 'The Bloody Battle' (specifically about the Civil War conflict). They are available from the Lostwithiel Museum, Community Centre or Watts Trading. .

You may also want to try one of our guided history tours of the town via the museum.

We hope to see you at another 'By the Way' tour.