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Foy Herefordshire |
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St
Mary's church, Foy.
Photograph © Chris Musson &
the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. |
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In the
860s the priest Mailseru of Lann Timoi together with Concum,
priest of Lann Suluc (Sellack)
were witnesses of a gift of land to Bishop Nudd from Abraham.
In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bishop Herewald of
Llandaff appointed Joseph son of Brein to the church here -
Lanntiuoi.
The
hypocoristic ti was placed in front of the name of the
saint here, Moi, to give the name Timoi. The ti has
been lost and the name changed to Foi or Foy.
Like
the other Archenfield churches, Foy does not appear in
Domesday. In 1100 it was given by Harold of Ewyas to
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St
Mary's church, Foy
Image courtesy of Hereford
City Library |
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Foy church on
its prominent bluff above the Wye. |
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Foy parish is
divided by the Wye. The footbridge near Hole-in-the-Wall was
built to let the parishioners of 'English' Foy attend the parish
church, which is in 'Welsh' Foy, without ford or ferry being
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Foy's integrity as a parish seems to
have been fairly recent, the two parts of the parish being
considered to be in different hundreds for much of the time. The
township of Eaton Tregoz in east, or 'English', Foy was assessed
separately from Foy itself in taxations of the 16th and 17th
centuries. Eaton Tregoz was assessed with Greytree Hundred
while Foy was always within Wormelow Hundred where it was
generally assessed as one unit with Sellack.
At a meeting of the Ross & Whitchurch
District Committee of the Herefordshire War Agricultural
Cultivation Committee held on September 16th 1939 Foy (west) was
grouped together with Sellack, while Foy (east) was grouped with
Brampton Abbotts (then spelled Abbots). |
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Eaton Tregoz and Hole
in the Wall - click image |
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Ingestone
Ingestone is a farm on the right bank of the Wye towards
the end of the Foy peninsula in a great loop in the river. It
was earlier a mansion and township and was for centuries the
home of the senior branch of the Abrahall family.
Ingestone was Enche(s)tone in 1283 and is likely to mean
'settlement of the manorial servants'.
Markey
Abrahall, the last male heir of the family which had held
Eaton Tregoz for several generations, died in 1715 and after
passing to his sisters, Ingestone descended to John Hoskyns,
who confusingly took the additional surname
Abrahall. |
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Ingestone House, a brick mansion,
was built in 1616 by John Abrahall and demolished in the
1830s.
Image from A History of the Mansion and Manors
of Herefordshire, Rev Charles Robinson, 1872 |
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At some time
Ingestone acquired a large
formal garden the earthworks of which are still visible on
this aerial photograph.
The smaller house which replaced
the 17th century mansion is shown left among later farm
buildings.
Photograph © Chris
Musson |
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'The Hill' at
Ingestone: this is the only piece of woodland in the western
part of Foy. View from How Caple church. |
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Perrystone
Perrystone is in the part of Foy parish
on the left bank of the Wye. It was very near to the
site of a place called Snogsash.
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Perrystone Court was a stone
building of the 18th century. George Clive bought Perrystone
from Colonel Morgan Clifford, sometime MP for Hereford, in
1865 and converted the then existing house into a mock
Elizabethan mansion.
In 1959 the mansion burnt down
and was replaced by a new house.
Avenue of trees at Perrystone,
Foy, right |
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The original
Perrystone House |
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Hill of Eaton
Hill of Eaton has been suggested
as a possible site of
Eaton
Tregoz Castle. It is also the suggested site of an Iron
Age promontory fort and marked as such on a series of maps. |
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The
rectangular symbol was used by Isaac Taylor in 1754 to
indicate ancient camps. |
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The same site
marked 'Site of Camp' on Bryant's 1835 county map. |
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The word
'Camp' on the 1880s OS 1st edition 1/1250 map |
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Hill of Eaton Farm in 1823 |
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The buildings
at Hill of Eaton with Capler Camp in the distance |
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Snogsash Snogsash is first recorded as
Fnogesesse in 1180 and is Fucogeaishe in 1422. The first element of the name is
entirely obscure but the second is ęsc 'ash tree'; a tree name
like nearby Wilton and Ashe Ingen.
The hundreds of Herefordshire were
reorganised by Henry I and Bromsash and Greytree hundreds
(which appear in Domesday) were merged to a form a new hundred
which was originally called Fnogesesse. By 1243 the
name had become Greytree again. |
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Carthage
Carthage was called The Hom until the
18th century. It was still Hom house in 1753, but had been
given its classical name by 1783. |
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Foy GENUKI
pages
Archaeological records from Foy are
held on Historic
Herefordshire On Line
See also www.wyenot.com/fawley.htm
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