Lostwithiel is a civil church as well as village in Cornwall, England, UK ahead of the tidewater of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, boosting to 2,899 at the 2011 census. The Lostwithiel selecting ward had a population of 4,639 at the 2011 census. The name Lostwithiel originates from the Cornish "lostwydhyel" which means "tail of a wooded location". The community is situated in the Fowey river valley, placed in between the A390 road from Tavistock to Truro as well as the upper tidal reaches of the river. Lostwithiel train station is on the Cornish Main Line from Plymouth to Penzance. It is positioned on the south side of the community, simply across the middle ages bridge. The line was originally built for the Cornwall Railway which built its major workshops right here, yet the surviving workshop buildings were changed right into apartments in 2004. A branch line takes china clay trains to Fowey. The community has the suburban areas of Bridgend to the eastern and Rosehill as well as Victoria to the west of the River Fowey.