Foxley
FOXLEY, a parish, in the union and hundred of Malmesbury, Malmesbury and Kingswood, and N. divisions of Wilts, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Malmesbury; containing 70 inhabitants. It is bounded on the north by a branch of the Avon, and comprises 760 acres; the surface is flat, and the soil of inferior quality, chiefly stone brash. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £3. 17. 8¼., and in the gift of Lord Holland: the tithes have been commuted for £147, and the glebe comprises 94 acres. There are some slight traces of a Roman station in the parish, where the Avon crosses the Roman Fosse-way.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.