Boxted

Other current and historical names

Boesteda

Parish/Community: Boxted
District/Borough: Babergh
County: Suffolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°7'45"N 0°40'4"E
Eastings/Northings: 582716, 251234
OS Grid: TL827512
Mapcode Local: GBR QG9.FPC
Mapcode Global: VHJH7.JRH3

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., W. Suffolk, on river Stour, 8 miles NW. of Sudbury, 1367 ac., pop. 181.

Boxted in the Domesday Book

A village in Babergh hundred, in the county of Suffolk.

- Overlords in 1066: King Edward; Wihtgar son of Aelfric; Wulfric
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Wulfric; Free men, five; Free man, one; Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Roger of Poitou
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Roger of Poitou
- Taxable Value: 4 ⁷⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 11/12 in 1066; £9 11/12 in 1070; £6 in 1086
- Households: 1 villager; 14 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs
- Meadow: 15 acres
- Woodland: 5 pigs
- Animals in 1066: 5 cattle; 24 pigs; 3 horses
- Animals in 1086: 4 cattle; 15 pigs

British Place Names

Boxted, Suffolk

Boxted is a village in Suffolk

Boxted in historic gazetteers

Boxted in the Domesday Book