Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOY

FOY, a parish in Ross district, Hereford; on the river Wye and on the Hereford and Gloucester railway, near Fawley station, 3 miles N by W of Ross. It includes the township of Eaton-Tregoes; and its post town is Ross. Acres, 2, 322. Rated property, £3, 716. Pop., 318. Houses, 60. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £515.* Patron, the Rev. John Jones. The church is good; and there are charities £13.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Foy CP/AP       Ross RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Foy

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