Located around six miles east of Sudbury straddling the River Box and skirted by the Holbrook.

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 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.

[13][14] There are two pubs in Boxford: The Fleece, (a 16th-century grade II* listed coaching inn)[15] and the White Hart.

Boxford has a church called St Mary's which is Grade I listed[16] and a primary school.

[17] Riddelsdell Brothers was established here in 1900 and is believed to be Europe's oldest recorded working garage.

[18] Copella fruit juices are made at orchards at Hill Farm on the outskirts of Boxford.