Foston

Other current and historical names

Fostone

Parish/Community: Kilby
District/Borough: Blaby
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°33'5"N 1°6'32"W
Eastings/Northings: 460509, 295219
OS Grid: SP605952
Mapcode Local: GBR 9PZ.2F8
Mapcode Global: VHCT1.Q4KC

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Foston within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Foston in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Foston, par., in co. and 6½ miles SE. of Leicester, 840 ac., pop. 43.

Foston in the Domesday Book

A village in Guthlaxton hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William Peverel
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William Peverel
- Taxable Value: 9 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £2 in 1070; £2 10/- in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 4 smallholders; 11 freemen; 2 slaves; 1 female slave
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Meadow: 16 acres

British Place Names

Foston, Leicestershire

Foston is a village in Leicestershire

Foston in historic gazetteers

Foston in the Domesday Book