Satis House in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. In fact the book describes Restoration House in Rochester, Kent, referred to as satis by Queen Elizabeth I of England. Yoxford's Satis House was known as plain Yoxford House until well after the novel appeared, as old Ordnance Survey maps confirm. 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. Public transport The village is served by Darsham railway station on the East Suffolk Line, one mile (1.6 km) away. The line offers hourly weekday services (two-hourly on Sundays) between Ipswich, with connections to London, and Lowestoft, with connections to Norwich. It is also served by four weekday buses a day between Aldeburgh and Halesworth and a once-daily Monday-to-Friday service between Leiston and Framlingham. There is also demand-responsive transport for disabled passengers. Notable residents In order of birth: Arthur Hopton (1488–1555), knight, landowner, magistrate, and Member of Parliament for Suffolk Owen Hopton (c. 1519–1595), provincial landowner, Member of Parliament for Suffolk, Middlesex, and Arundel, and Lieutenant of the Tower of London from c. 1570 to 1590 Lady Katherine Grey (1540–1568), granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England. Robert Hopton (died 1590), Knight Marshal of the Household, and English Member of Parliament for Mitchell Robert Brooke (1572–1646), landowner, magistrate, commissioner and Member of Parliament for Dunwich Elizabeth Brooke (1601–1683), religious writer and landowner John Eachard (c. 1636–1697), divine and satirist Robert Brooke (1637–1669), landowner, magistrate, commissioner, military officer, knight and Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet (1657–1738), politician, landowner and Member of Parliament for Ipswich and Dunwich 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 Sir Arthur Birch (1837–1914), Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon, Colonial Secretary for Ceylon and acting Lieutenant Governor of Penang and Province Wellesley William R. Symonds (1851–1934), painter Samuel Lomax (1855–1915), British Army officer who commanded the 1st Division as Lieutenant General Day Joyce (1905–1975), nurse and prisoner of war Flavia Blois (1914–1980), landscape artist See also The Blois family References Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk