Yoxford, Suffolk

Historical Description

Yoxford, a village and a parish in Suffolk The village stands 1 mile WNW of Darsham station on the G.E.R., and 4 miles N of Saxmundham, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Saxmundham. The parish comprises 2730 acres; population, 1047. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Cockfield Hall is the seat of the baronet family of Blois, and Grove House, the Rookery, Elmsley, and Sans Souci are other chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £112 with residence. The church is in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored and enlarged. There are two Methodist chapels, a mechanics' institute, and a library.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Yoxford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yoxford (St. Peter))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Yoxford are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press