Boxford could be seen as a Suffolk village enjoying its retirement, its gardens lovingly tended, its wealth of lovely buildings based on the prosperity of its past working life from the Middle Ages to the Stuart period when this was a significant weaving centre.

Sitting down in a hollow, with a stream flowing by, Boxford (the name means ford at the box tree) is now an archetypal Suffolk village, complete with requisite colour washed houses. The biggest evidence of the village’s prosperity is the imposing church, St Mary’s, which like Boxford has evolved through the centuries: the tower is 14th century, the rare timber north porch probably from the same time, the south porch 15th century, and the little spire Georgian.