Boxted, Suffolk

Boxted
All Saints, Boxted. Credit: Bob Jones
Boxted
Boxted shown within Suffolk
Population	120 (2001)
District	Babergh
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Colchester
Postcode district	CO4
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places UK England Suffolk 52°07′44″N 0°40′05″E / 52.129°N 0.668°E / 52.129; 0.668Coordinates: 52°07′44″N 0°40′05″E / 52.129°N 0.668°E / 52.129; 0.668

Boxted is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around 8 miles (13 km) north of Sudbury, in 2005 it had a population of 120. From the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Somerton.

According to Eilert Ekwall, the meaning of the village name is place where box grow. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 25.

Fenstead End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Boxted, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The settlement appears in the Domesday Book as Finesteda when its inventory was:

Karl Inge Sandred (1963), English place-names in -stead, Uppsala University, pp. 100, 187 

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