Description

Boxford, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on an affluent of the river Stour, 6 miles ESE of Sudbury station on the G.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Colchester. The parish includes the township of Hadleigh near Boxford. Acreage, 1802; population of civil parish, 873; of ecclesiastical, 850. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely ; gross value, £550 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style. There is a Congregational chapel at Edwardstone, close to Boxford. Mailing, milling, brick-making, and brewing are carried on.