Boxted

Other current and historical names

Bocstede
Bocche-
Bucchesteda

Built-Up Area: Boxted
Parish/Community: Boxted
District/Borough: Colchester
County: Essex
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°56'45"N 0°54'32"E
Eastings/Northings: 600022, 231497
OS Grid: TM000314
Mapcode Local: GBR SMD.W2B
Mapcode Global: VHKFS.PCW1

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Boxted within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Boxted in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Boxted.-- par., NE. Essex, on river Stour, 5½ miles N. of Colchester, 3177 ac., pop. 826; P.O.; contains Boxted House.

Boxted in the Domesday Book

A village in Lexden hundred, in the county of Essex.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Aelfric the sheriff
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Eustace
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count Eustace
- Taxable Value: 4 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £8 in 1070; £12 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 18 smallholders; 1 freeman
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 6 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 300 pigs
- Animals in 1086: 13 cattle; 35 pigs; 25 goats; 2 cobs
2nd Manor
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Grim; Free man, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Arthur (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £2 5/- in 1086
- Households: 9 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 2 acres
- Woodland: 42 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 6 cattle; 10 pigs
- Animals in 1086: 4 cattle; 13 pigs; 13 goats; 1 beehive

British Place Names

Boxted, Essex

Boxted is a village in Essex

Boxted in historic gazetteers

Boxted in the Domesday Book