Until 1974, the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the East Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Ryedale district.
St Mary's Church, Foxholes is a Grade II listed former Anglican church, an 1866 limestone and sandstone construction by George Fowler Jones[2]Pevsner describes this neo-Norman church as: "one of the ugliest in the Riding... The north aisle piers are grotesque, with their undersized shafts on their over-high bases and their big square foliage capitals... FONT. Obtrusively Norman". He also notes several windows by Capronnier, and a 1720 cup by William Gamble.[3]
^Pevsner, Nikolaus (1975) [1972]. The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (reprint). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Penguin. p. 232. ISBN0140710434.