Fovant

Other current and historical names

Foffont
Febefonte

Built-Up Area: Fovant
Parish/Community: Fovant
Unitary Authority: East Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°3'33"N 1°59'46"W
Eastings/Northings: 400363, 128885
OS Grid: SU003288
Mapcode Local: GBR 2YJ.D53
Mapcode Global: FRA 66QB.04P

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

Fovant in historic gazetteers

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

Fovant, par., S. Wilts, on river Avon, 7 miles SW. of Wilton, 2160 ac., pop. 559; P.O.

Fovant in the Domesday Book

A village in Cadworth hundred, in the county of Wiltshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Wilton St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Wilton
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Wilton
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 10/- in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 7 smallholders; 7 freedmen
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (7 plough lands)
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 2 furlongs
- Pasture: 4 furlongs
- Mills: 2, value £8 10/4¾

British Place Names

Fovant, East Dorset

Fovant is a village in East Dorset

Fovant in historic gazetteers

Fovant in the Domesday Book