YOXFORD, a village and a parish in Blything district, Suffolk. The village stands 1 mile WNW of Darsham r. station, and 4 N of Saxmundham; is a seat of petty-sessions, and the head-quarters of the East Suffolk constabulary; and has a post-office‡ under Saxmundham, and two inns. The parish comprises 2,724 acres. Real property, £6,573. Pop. in 1851, 1,272; in 1861, 1,111. Houses, 254. Cockfield Hall is the seat of Sir J. R. Blois, Bart.; and Grove house , the Rookery, Elmsley, and Satis House are other chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £230. Patron, J. Dutton, Esq. The church is later English, and was reseated and improved in 1868. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, a mechanics' institute, and charities £10.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))