Boxford is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district , in the county of Suffolk , England . Boxford has a church called St Mary 's Church . As part of the American Bicentennial celebrations the townspeople of Boxford , Massachusetts , visited the villages of Boxford ( there are three ) in England during 1975 looking for the source of the name of their own village and decided that Boxford in Suffolk was likely to be from where the name of their own town came from .