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Boxford, Suffolk
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Historic maps of Boxford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Boxford maps
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Boxford books
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Suffolk Living Memories
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
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Suffolk - A Second Selection Photographic Memories
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We have just discover some of our relatives may have come from the Boxford area. Does anyone remember or recall anyone of the name of Churchyard or maybe Greenwood living in Boxford or nearby, maybe even Ipswich. Our father maybe went to a boys home in the area in the 20's and 30's
Can anyone help with our... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2009
I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago.
As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her parents, my great Grandmother Mary and Grandfather Charles Carpenter at Tinywent Corner - a little cottage with a well... [more]
Shared on 09 August 2006
William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - however, we are not certain which town in the UK he became Mayor of - because he moved to London... [more]
Shared on 08 June 2008
Suffolk memories
In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century,at Society Farm, Assington.
We were unable to find the farm, but called at a farm shop in the middle of the village, and were told that this... [more]
Shared on 27 August 2006
I think my father's birth family the Harts may have lived in this house. Does anybody know any history of the occupants of the house?
Shared on 24 May 2009
Dad was the village policeman, PC 39. Our family name was Moss. We lived outside the village near the T junction to Little Waldingfield (two farm houses, we lived in one of them). Dad, mum and my 4 sisiters. We all attended Gt. Waldingfield school (next to the church then). Miss Bowers was the teacher. She lived with her mum and... [more]
Shared on 26 February 2009
I, Bill Rodgers was in the United States Air Force stationed at RAF Wethersfield. My wife Phyllis, son Michael and I lived on the Heath Estates, Great Waldingfield from 1962 to 1965. Michael, age 5 attended the Folly Road Primary School in Great Waldingfield. Our daughter Michelle was born in the Sudbury hospital in 1964. We had... [more]
Shared on 12 November 2007
Joseph Culling was my Great Great Grandfather, he was born in Offton in 1819. He married an Eliza who was born in 1802 in Semer, they had 4 children, Charles, Emma, Patience and Dinah (my great grandmother). Does anyone know of this family, they are very elusive and I cannot find many references to them.
Christine Harris
Shared on 10 March 2009
Extracts From Boxford & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Boxford, inspired by Frith photos.
Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
The 18th-century brick-fronted Swan (left) closed in the 1980s. The Victorian stepped gables, porch and Tudor-style windows of Old Castle House beyond mask a timber building of c1600. The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839. Commerce House was Kingsbury's the builders, established in 1730. There are several small shops on the right, one of which has painted bands imitating beams and a panel of... [more]
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
On the left is Norman's grocery and general shop, now a newsagent's. The shop front now extends half the width of the building. The shop next door with the two gables and jettied front was C J Newell's butcher's shop. The Fleece Hotel beyond, with its 18th-century front, is renowned for its jazz sessions in the upper room. The arched footbridge gives access over the River Brett, which flows through the village.
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
This hamlet is to the south of Boxford and separated from it since 1975 by the bypass. This community is a Kersey in miniature, with a tiny stream, and timber- framed, plastered, jettied and gabled houses with roof lines at all angles. It even had its own pub, The Compasses, until 1989. The shop on the right, Henry Grimwood's, closed in 1983. All the houses have been restored and the barns converted. The house to the... [more]
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