Norfolk - Foxley

Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854, pp. 438-9

FOXLEY, 3½ miles E. of North Elmham, and 5 miles W. of Reepham, is a pleasant village and parish, with 60 houses, 321 souls, and 1,620 acres of land, nearly all the property of Charles Lombe, Esq., except about 300a. belonging to the Earl of Leicester. The Wood on the east side of the parish comprises 305a. The Church, dedicated to St. Thomas, has a tower and six bells, and the rectory, valued in the King's book at £6 13s. 4d., is in the gift of Charles Lombe, Esq., the lord of the manor, and incumbency of the Rev. Louis Augustus Norgate, B.A., who has 21a. 1r. 26p. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £410, awarded in 1839, in lieu of tithes. At the enclosure in 1814, two acres were set apart as a clay pit for the parishioners.

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