English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Foys

Other OS name in the Parish of Chetnole

Etymology

, cf. Foys Breach & Foys Cl 1840TA , named from the Foy family who held the adjacent manor of Melbury Bubb 1602 – 1784 , cf. also Sybilla Foy who held land in the adjacent par . of Leigh in 1635 (Hutch3 4432, 451) .