Cumbria's county town, Carlisle, is located twenty-one miles away to the north-east.

There have been several historical variant spellings recorded, including Fowlesyke, Foalsyke, Fullsyke, and Foulsike.

The chapel was built between 1898 and 1899 by a man named Thomas Hurst, who was 27 years old at the time construction began.

Thomas' wife, Sarah Ann Hurst, took over running the chapel when he died, and continued to do so until she retired in 1947.

[5] In July 2014, a mill worker named Brian Rudd was killed while cutting grass in Foulsyke, near to the chapel, when his tractor overturned.