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YOXFORD is a parish and village, 1 mile south-west from Darsham station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft line of the London and North Eastern railway and 4 north from Saxmundham, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth county court district, rural deanery of South Dunwich. archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmnndsbury and Ipswich. The village, which is lighted with gas, stands on the old road from Ipswich to Lowestoft and Yarmouth, and on the river Yox, or Minsmere, and is surrounded by a beautiful country, interspersed with many gentlemen's seats. The church of St. Peter is an ancient structure of flint, with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and embattled western tower with small spire containing 6 bells: it was enlarged in 1837 at a cost of £1,200, and thoroughly restored and reseated with open benches in 1868: there are several ancient brasses and monuments to the Blois, Brooke and other families: the east window was filled with stained glass in 1919 as a memorial to those who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there is also a stained glass window in the south aisle, erected by Miss Alice Lomax in memory of her parents: a new altar, reredos, cross, ornaments and altar rails were given by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lomax: in 1927 the south aisle was underpinned and the bells restored and rehung: in 1929 two oak vestry screens were given, one by C. H. Lomax esq. M.A., J.P. and the other by the parishioners: a tablet was also put in to the memory of the late Lt.-Gen. Sir H. S. G. Miles G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E., C.V.O., J.P.: there are 550 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £375, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and held since 1918 by the Rev. Colin Harris Raven M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, and rural dean of South Dunwich. The Wesleyan chapel here was rebuilt in 1889 at a cost of £1,150, and affords 200 sittings: there is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. There is a local Horticultural Society, which holds a show every July. Cockfield Hall, the seat of Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten Blois bart. D.L., J.P. is a mansion in the Tudor style, standing in a well-wooded park, through which flows the small river Yox, or Minsmere. Grove Park, the seat of Charles Henry Lomax esq. M.A., J.P. is an ancient brick mansion surrounded by pleasure gardens and a well wooded park. Rookery Park is the residence of Sir Herbert Hambling bart. D.L., J.P. Commdr. Egerton Bagot Byrd Levett-Scrivener B.N. (ret.), J.P. is lord of the manor of Sibton with its members; the Earl of Stradbroke K.C.M.O., C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., V.D., T.D., D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor of Darsham with Yoxford, and Sir B. B. M. Blois bart. D.L., J.P. is lord of Yoxford with its members. The principal landowners are Sir B. B. M. Blois bart. D.L., J.P. C. H. Lomax esq. M.A., J.P. Sir Herbert Hambling bart. D.L., J.P. and John Kendall Brooke esq. J.P. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas and beans. The area is 2,730 acres; the population in 1921 was 978.
Sexton, Charles Smith.
Post, M. 0., T. & T. E. D. Office. Letters through Saxmundham
Chairman, C. H. Lomax M.A., J.P. Grove park, Yoxford
Clerk. Albert Augustus Bendall. Yoxford
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Yoxford (1 m. S.W. of Darsham) is a pretty village in a well-wooded district known as the "Garden of Suffolk." Its church has a Dec. nave, but the rest, consisting of chancel, whole length aisles, and tower, is Perp., with the exception of the N. aisle, which is modern. At the E. end of the S. aisle is the Cockfield chapel, containing a brass to Dame Joanna Brooke (1618). Other brasses are to John Norwiche (1428), Tomesina Tendryng (1485), a small one to her two sons, and Elizabeth Knyvet ( l471 ) . Among the monuments are those of five baronets of the Blois family; and there is a tablet to David Elisha Davy, antiquary, whose MSS. are in the British Museum. Lady Katharine Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was buried here in 1567, but there is no monument to her. She died in the Tower of London. Cockfield Hall ( Sir Ralph B. M. Blois, Bart. ) is a modernised house, dating from the reign of Henry VIII.
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