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Foy, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"FOY, a parish partly in the hundred of Wormelow, and partly in the upper division of the hundred of Greytree, county Hereford, 3 miles N. of Ross, its post town, and 11 S. E. of Hereford. The Fawley station on the Gloucester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway is about 2 miles to the N. of the village. The parish includes the township of Eaton Tregoes, and is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Wye, which is here navigable.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Hereford, value £515. The church, dedicates to St. Mary, is a stone structure with square tower, partly covered with ivy. It has fine windows of stained glass. The charities comprise an endowment of £8 to Abrahall's almshouses, and about £5 for the poor of the parish. There are some remains of a castle. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor. Perrystone House is the principal residence."

"EATON-TREGOZE, a township in the parish of Foy, county Hereford, 3 miles N. of Ross. It is situated on the river Wye."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]