Yoxford
Yoxford | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Saxmundham | |
Postcode district | IP17 | |
Yoxford is a village in
The name 'Yoxford' comes from
Location and governance
Yoxford, some 94 miles (151 km) north-east of London and 25 miles (40 km) north-east of Ipswich, is surrounded by the parkland of three country houses, in an area known as the Garden of Suffolk. It takes its name from a
Before 1 April 2019, its
Facilities and sights
The Church of St Peter has a 15th-century
The church parish belongs to the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Up to about 1830, the village came under the Blything Hundred.
On the edge of the village is Cockfield Hall, once the old home of the Blois family. The village is known for its antique shops. It also has a general store, a restaurant and a village hall.
Benjamin Britten and librettist Eric Crozier are believed to have adapted the name of Yoxford to create the fictional town of Loxford, which provides the setting for Britten's opera, Albert Herring.
Education
Yoxford and Peasenhall Primary School caters for children aged 3–11. The school has an Early Year Centre, purpose-built for pupils aged from 3–6. The school works in partnership with Middleton Primary School in
Hospitality
Yoxford's two pubs are the Griffin Inn, a medieval house that reopened in 2013, and The King's Head. The Griffin Inn offers accommodation, as does the 18th-century Satis House. This is sometimes described wrongly as the original for the Satis House in
Every year on the first Sunday after Easter, a competition is held for eating brawn, known locally as pork cheese. A Brawn Queen is picked from the village and her first ceremonial task as Queen is to cut the cheese.[6][self-published source][citation needed]
Public transport
The village is served by
Notable residents
In order of birth:
- Member of Parliament for Suffolk
- from c. 1570 to 1590
- Elizabeth I of England.
- Member of Parliament for Mitchell
- Member of Parliament for Dunwich
- Elizabeth Brooke (1601–1683), religious writer and landowner
- satirist
- Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh
- Ann Candler (1740–1814), poet known as "The Suffolk Cottager"
- David Elisha Davy (1769–1851), antiquary and collector
- James Allen Ransome (1806–1875), agricultural tool-maker and writer
- Province Wellesley
- William R. Symonds (1851–1934), painter
- Lieutenant General
- Day Joyce (1905–1975), nurse and prisoner of war
- Flavia Blois (1914–1980), landscape artist
See also
References
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names".
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 19 September 2015.
- ^ Britain Express. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ "Yox Valley Partnership of Schools". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Anthony Poulton-Smith, Origins of English Pub Names... (Apex eBook, Clacton on Sea, 2018); book form self-published, 2018, p. 23. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Bus times Retrieved 30 August 2020.