Early taxation records in the Golden Valley
The Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliæ et
Walliæ, Auctoritate P. Nicholai IV, circa AD 1291, or Pope Nicholas
IVth's Taxation, is a most important document as it set out and
regulated the national taxation framework, both for the popes and the
monarchs, up until the secession of the Church of England under Henry
VIII. It was published, as an important public record, by George III's
government in 1800. In this article, Steve Edwards draws attention to
the records relating to the Golden Valley, and in particular the first
confirmed written reference to the name "Fowchiriche" [Vowchurch].
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