Boxford Cemetery
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Boxford Cemetery

Boxford, Babergh District, Suffolk, England

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    Coordinates: 52.02684, 0.86013
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Boxford is a large village and a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around six miles east of Sudbury straddling the River Box and skirted by the Holbrook.
According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is "the ford where box trees grow". The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 18. During the Middle Ages, Boxford was a wool town. It is still a place with the trappings of a small town rather than a mere village.
As part of the American Bicentennial celebrations the townspeople of Boxford, Massachusetts, visited the villages of Boxford (there are three) in England during 1975 looking for the source of the name of their own village and decided that Boxford in Suffolk was likely to be from where the name of their own town originated.
As a result of this the villagers of Boxford, Suffolk, were invited to Boxford, MA, the following summer.. A TWA Boeing 707 was hired which flew the villagers from London Heathrow to Boston Logan, from where they were bussed to Boxford, MA, and dispersed amongst receiving families.

The entrance to the cemetery is at the junction of School Hill/Stone Street Road-it lies behind the village hall.




Boxford is a large village and a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around six miles east of Sudbury straddling the River Box and skirted by the Holbrook.
According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is "the ford where box trees grow". The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 18. During the Middle Ages, Boxford was a wool town. It is still a place with the trappings of a small town rather than a mere village.
As part of the American Bicentennial celebrations the townspeople of Boxford, Massachusetts, visited the villages of Boxford (there are three) in England during 1975 looking for the source of the name of their own village and decided that Boxford in Suffolk was likely to be from where the name of their own town originated.
As a result of this the villagers of Boxford, Suffolk, were invited to Boxford, MA, the following summer.. A TWA Boeing 707 was hired which flew the villagers from London Heathrow to Boston Logan, from where they were bussed to Boxford, MA, and dispersed amongst receiving families.

The entrance to the cemetery is at the junction of School Hill/Stone Street Road-it lies behind the village hall.




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  • Added: 5 Sep 2015
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2589612