"The earliest prehistoric finds date to the Neolithic Era there was activity in the parish from much earlier than the Saxon period".

[4] In July 1944, two B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group, USAAF, based at RAF Wendling, crashed in the parish after a mid-air collision.

[6] Foxley falls within the constituency of Broadland and is represented at Parliament by Jerome Mayhew MP of the Conservative Party.

For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the Upper Wensum Ward of district of Breckland and the Elmham and Mattishall Division of Norfolk County Council.

[13][14] Foxley war memorial, at the junction of the A1067 and Old Fakenham Road, takes the form of a stone obelisk on a trapezoid base.

Listed for the Second World War is LAC Angus Ross (d.1943), Royal Air Force[15][16] Foxley Wood is a site of special scientific interest and the largest remaining area of ancient woodland in Norfolk, England.

Operated by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust,[17] parts of the 123 hectare (300 acre) reserve are thought to be over 6000 years old, dating from the end of the last ice age.