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21-546: The present name is a back-formation from Boxford . A previous name Amalburna is found in an Old English text dated after 991, published in the Cartularium Saxonicum (p. 1289). Eilert Ekwall discusses various possible roots, including the British (i.e. pre-English) root ambro meaning "water". The river rises to the north of Little Waldingfield , near to where two other small streams also rise, which converge with

42-578: A conservation area in 1973. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is "the ford where box trees grow". During the Middle Ages, Boxford was a wool town . In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson 's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the village as: BOXFORD, a village and a parish in Gosford district, Suffolk. The village stands on an affluent of the river Stour, 4½ miles WSW of Hadleigh r. station, and 6 ESE of Sudbury; and has

63-528: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using

84-526: A maximum altitude of 83.6 metres (274 ft). Land use is mostly rural, consisting of arable farming. The River Box has been classed as having moderate ecological quality under the Water Framework Directive . This is the middle band in the five part framework scale, which ranges from high, good, and moderate, through to poor and finally bad. [REDACTED] Media related to River Box at Wikimedia Commons Boxford, Suffolk Boxford

105-503: A post office† under Colchester, and fairs on Easter Monday and 21 Dec.—The parish includes also the hamlet of Hadleigh. Acres, 1,820. Real property, £4,174. Pop., 986. Houses, 236. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £710.* Patron, the Crown. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, an endowed grammar school, and charities £58. In 1887, John Bartholomew also wrote an entry on Boxford in

126-577: Is Grade I listed and a primary school. Riddelsdell Brothers was established here in 1900 and is believed to be Europe's oldest recorded working garage. Copella fruit juices are made at orchards at Hill Farm on the outskirts of Boxford. Intrinsic to the parish of Boxford are 3 hamlets , Stone Street south of the church and the A1071 and that to the east as Calais Street , neither separated by buffer zones of more than 250 metres and well connected by pavements/footpaths as well as roads. Hagmore Green

147-711: Is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk , England. Located around six miles east of Sudbury straddling the River Box and skirted by the Holbrook. The parish includes the hamlets of Calais Street, Hagmore Green and Stone Street. In 2021 the built-up area had a population of 833. In 2021 the parish had a population of 1403. The parish borders Assington , Edwardstone , Groton , Kersey , Newton and Polstead . There are 87 listed buildings in Boxford. Boxford became

168-1016: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland  – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on

189-563: Is south west of Stone Street. [REDACTED] Media related to Boxford, Suffolk at Wikimedia Commons Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils,

210-457: The electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in

231-481: The gauging station yields an average flow of 0.22 cubic metres per second (7.8 cu ft/s). The highest river level recorded was in January 1998 with a height of 1.25 metres (4 ft 1 in) through the flume, which was estimated to have a flow of 10 cubic metres per second (350 cu ft/s). The catchment upstream of the gauging station has an average annual rainfall of 566 millimetres (22.3 in) and

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252-637: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by

273-515: The Box at Upsher Green. From this point the river flows south-east, past Edwardstone towards the large village of Boxford , where it is crossed by the A1071 . The river then continues in the same direction and passes a number of villages and hamlets, which are suffixed by the name street. These include Stone Street and to the south of Polstead , Mill Street. The river then passes Scotland Street before reaching

294-532: The Gazetteer of the British Isles with a much shorter description: Boxford, par. and vil., W. Suffolk, 6 miles SE. of Sudbury, 1820 ac., pop. 864; P.O., T.O. A electoral ward with the same name existed until 2019. The population of this ward stretched north to Milden with a total population of 2,170. Boxford was in the Babergh hundred, in 1894 it became part of Cosford Rural District which became part of

315-462: The United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use

336-532: The administrative county of West Suffolk in 1889. In 1974 it became part of Babergh non-metropolitan district in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk. As part of the American Bicentennial celebrations the townspeople of Boxford, Massachusetts , visited the villages of Boxford (there are three) in England during 1975 looking for the source of the name of their own village and decided that Boxford in Suffolk

357-487: The same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and

378-435: The term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly

399-569: The village of Thorington Street , and Thorington Hall. It continues flowing southeast to meet the Stour, between Langham and Higham , which is also close to the confluence of the River Brett and Stour. Since 1960 the flow of the River Box, has been measured in its middle reaches at a flume near Polstead. The fifty four year record shows that the catchment of 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi) to

420-515: The villagers when they left for a two-week stay on 23 July 1976. A TWA Boeing 707 was hired which flew the villagers from London Heathrow to Boston Logan, from where they were bussed to Boxford, MA, and dispersed amongst receiving families. There are two pubs in Boxford: The Fleece, (a 16th-century grade II* listed coaching inn) and the White Hart. Boxford has a church called St Mary's which

441-533: Was likely to be where the name of their own town came from. As a result of this the villagers of Boxford, Suffolk, were invited to Boxford, MA, the following summer. This drew attention from the media: the Evening Standard incorporated a photograph of the villagers in a centre-page spread in one of their November 1975 editions, and a TV crew led by Bernard Falk for the BBC Nationwide programme accompanied

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