Through the estate flows a stream, interrupted by seven c.1800 or earlier man-made lakes and ponds, starting at Yarsop, entering the valley at the north, and with largely wooded margins, flowing at the north and parallel to the main valley road, past a 240 feet (73 m) by 100 feet (30 m) pond (SO4158946686), between the stream and the Foxley Manor site, then flowing at the north around the remains of the Camp, past the site of an old saw mill (SO4204546416), before passing out of the estate to lakes and ponds in Mansel Lacy village.

Opposite St Mary's (SO4066046538), is the 1887-built gatehoused north-west road to the rear of the previous Foxley Manor house, which also links to a network of woodland bridle paths within the south-west Nash Wood.

[9] At 500 yards (460 m) south from the stable block, and in Nash Wood, is the listed Ragged Castle (SO4132846236), a trapezoidal-plan gazebo dating to 1743, with a restoration in 1975.

The gatehouse, Yazor Lodge, at the head of the drive opposite St Mary's church on the A480 was built to plans by William Chick (1829-1892), of Hereford in 1872.

[11][12] At the time of Domesday, Foxley, in the Herefordshire hundred of Stepleset, was within the purview of the manors and lands of Yarsop and Yazor, both in 1086 under the lordship of Robert of Baskerville, himself under Roger de Lacy, the tenant-in-chief to king William I.

In 1166, the first year in the reign of John, Ralph de Baskerville, with the approval of the king, had handed the advowson and tithes of the parish and manor to the Welsh Llanthony Priory.

[8][15][16] Robert Price, the husband of Lucy (Rodd) from 1679, later became Attorney General for South Wales, an alderman of the city of Hereford, a recorder of Radnor, steward to Catherine of Braganza, the town clerk of Gloucester, the King's Counsel for Ludlow, MP for Weobley, Baron of the Exchequer under Queen Anne, and a justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Uvedale was succeeded by Robert Price (1717–1761), who was instrumental in expanding the Foxley estate through purchases and exchanges and after 1757, eschewing ideas of formal garden and English landscape garden design, developed the property in line with contemporary natural landscape ideas of the romantic and picturesque, this inspired by his 1738 to 1740 Grand Tour of Italy and Switzerland.

Kim Sloan, a curator at the British Museum, states that Uvedale Price was as important an exponent of the picturesque as Richard Payne Knight, his close neighbour at Downton Castle, and the artist and cleric William Gilpin.

He inherited Foxley while on tour, extended the estate with lands at Mansel Lacy, Yazor and Ladylift (Lady Lift Clump, north-west from Foxley, SO3965947907), and continued its picturesque development, including his father's extension of the valley upper slope woodland plantations of oaks, chestnuts, ashes, beeches and larches, through which were six to seven miles of rides, suitable for walking and carriages, and tree management to provide and improve extensive vistas and intimate views.

Uvedale Price, who was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1793, was an acquaintance of William Wordsworth and friends with Charles James Fox and Sir George Beaumont.

He was the sole landowner at Yazor, and responsible for the gift of the parish vicarage living, was MP for Herefordshire from 1818 until 1841, and Hereford from 1845, and invested in coal and iron, particularly ironworks at Tondu, Bridgend.

George Horatio Davenport JP, sole landowner and lord of the manor, who rebuilt much of the house, improved and renovated estate buildings.

In 1866 George Horatio Davenport married Miss Dashwood of Stanford Hall, Loughborough; the day was celebrated on the Foxley estate as a holiday with entertainments which included the band of the Herefordshire Militia.

The marriage is commemorated by a William Warrington stained glass window, in the apse of St Mary's church, funded partly by the Foxley estate tenantry.

At the time the Foxley estate is described as in a "high state of cultivation", the mansion as commanding "some beautiful views over the vale of Hereford, the distance being formed by various hills retiring in perspective, and the foreground by rich masses of wood".