Boxley is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.

It lies below the slope of the North Downs approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the centre of Maidstone town.

The civil parish has a population of 7,144 (2001 census), increasing to 9,554 at the 2011 Census,[1] and extends to the north and east of the town including the settlements of Boxley itself, Grove Green, most of Weavering Street, Sandling and the southern extremities of Walderslade and Lordswood at the top of Blue Bell Hill.

Within the parish are the Kent Life open-air museum, in Sandling, and Vinters Valley Nature Reserve.

[3] Susanna Whatman was the first of her family to manage the house and the guide she wrote was published in 1952 - about 200 years after her birth.