In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Foleshill like this:
FOLESHILL, a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Warwick. The town stands adjacent to the Oxford canal and the Coventry and Nuneaton railway, 2½ miles NNE of Coventry; has a station on the railway, and a post office under Coventry; and participates in the ribbon, silk, and other manufactures of Coventry. The parish comprises 2, 594 acres. Real property, £23, 950; of which £2, 437 are in mines. Pop., 8, 140. Houses, 1, 913. Foleshill Manor House and Foleshill Hall are chief residences. ...
Iron-founding, coal-mining, and brick-making are carried on. Both the head living and another living called St. Paul's are vicarages in the diocese of Worcester. Value of the former, £353;* of the latter, £180. Patron of the former, the Lord Chancellor; of the latter, the Vicar of F. The head church was enlarged in 1816; and has an ancient font. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and two national schools. -The sub-district contains also the parish of Exhall and Bedworth, and the hamlet of Keresley. Acres, 7, 799. Pop., 15, 327. Houses, 3, 503. -The district includes likewise the sub-district of Sowe, containing the parishes of Sowe, Anstey, Shilton, Withybrook, Wyken, Stoke, and Binley, and the hamlet of Willenhall. Acres, 19, 389. Poor-rates in 1862, £11, 555. Pop. in 1851, 18, 527; in 1861, 19, 997. Houses, 4, 556. Marriages in 1860, 114; births, 804. -of which 54 were illegitimate; deaths, 407, -of which 185 were at ages under 5 years, and 14 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1, 535; births, 8, 161; deaths, 4, 880. The places of worship, in 1851, were 12 of the Church of England, with 5, 909 sittings; 6 of Independents, with 2, 008 s.; 8 of Baptists, with 2, 141 s.; 5 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 818 s.; 6 of Primitive Methodists, with 1, 126 s.; and 1 of the Wesleyan Association, with 150 s. The schools were 15 public day schools, with 1, 090 scholars; 8 private day schools, with 268 s.; 26 Sunday schools, with 2, 074 s.; and 1 evening schools for adults, with 12 s. There are two workhouses in Foleshill, and another in Exhall.
Foleshill through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Foleshill has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Coventry. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Foleshill and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Foleshill, in Coventry and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8980
Date accessed: 20th June 2013
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