Monday, April 13, 2026

Foxcote Somerset (pronounced Fosscutt)

 Some stuff on the village. 

Foxcote Pit
Church of St James The Less, Foxcote - Wikipedia

Fair Maids of Foscott. In 1668 Samuel Pepys visited Norton St Philip

''At Philips-Norton I walked to [the Church](https://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/14144/), and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight Templar, I think; and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two heads cut, which, the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called the Fair Maids of Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and there lie buried. ''


Foxcote Carting Boys 1904 protesting the Guss and Crook