Foxearth is a village and civil parish on the borders of north Essex and Suffolk in England, between Long Melford and Cavendish.

[citation needed] Foxearth has always been predominantly agricultural, and had its own watermill that originally fell within a separate parish, Weston, until the year 1286, when the two manors became united.

[citation needed] In the reign of Edward the Confessor, the parish was in the possession of nineteen sochmen and four freemen; The Domesday survey shows that the small manor of Foxearth Hall, had become the property of Richard Fitz-Gilbert, ancestor of the lords of Clare.

[8] In order to loosen the grip of the farmers on the community, Foster funded a brewery in the village in 1878 to provide alternative employment.

[citation needed] The brewery was sold to Taylor Walker & Co in 1957, and the last brew of 62 barrels (9.9 m3) of Small Best Bitter Ale was made on 19 February the following year.

The whole building is of stone, and at the west end there is a square tower with eight bells (now dormant save the automatic clock chimes) and which formerly had a spire.