Boxted is a village and civil parish in the

Babergh Babergh may refer to the following places in England: * Babergh Hundred, a defunct hundred of the county of Suffolk, named for a "mound of a man called Babba" * Babergh District Babergh District (pronounced , ) is a local government district in ...

district of

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, England. Located around north of

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, in 2005 it had a population of 120. From the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Somerton. According to

Eilert Ekwall Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...

, the meaning of the village name is place where box grow. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 25.

Fenstead End

Fenstead End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Boxted, in the

district, in the county of

, England. The settlement appears in the Domesday Book as ''Finesteda'' when its inventory was: :Hundred —

:Population — 4 households comprising 1 villager, 2 smallholders, 5 slaves. :Value — £5 :Ploughland — 5 lord's plough teams :Meadow — 10 acres :Woodland — 20 pigs :Livestock in 1066 — 3 cattle, 1 horse :Lord in 1066 — Uhtred :Overlord in 1066 — Edgar of Houghton

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Fenstead End

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