# Boxley

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Village in Kent, England

For the small town in the United States, see [Boxley, Indiana](/source/Boxley%2C_Indiana).

Human settlement in England

Boxley St. Mary and All Saints, Boxley Boxley Location within Kent Population 9,554 (2011 Census)[1] District Maidstone Shire county Kent Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Maidstone Postcode district ME14 Police Kent Fire Kent Ambulance South East Coast UK Parliament Faversham and Mid Kent List of places UK England Kent 51°18′09″N 0°32′34″E / 51.302424°N 0.542887°E / 51.302424; 0.542887

**Boxley** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in the [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone_(borough)) District of [Kent](/source/Kent), England.

It lies below the slope of the [North Downs](/source/North_Downs) approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the centre of [Maidstone](/source/Maidstone) town. The civil parish has a population of 7,144 (2001 census), increasing to 9,554 at the 2011 Census,[1] and extends to the north and east of the town including the settlements of Boxley itself, [Grove Green](/source/Grove_Green), most of [Weavering Street](/source/Weavering_Street), [Sandling](/source/Sandling%2C_Maidstone) and the southern extremities of [Walderslade](/source/Walderslade) and [Lordswood](/source/Lordswood%2C_Kent) at the top of [Blue Bell Hill](/source/Blue_Bell_Hill).

The [M2](/source/M2_motorway_(Great_Britain)) and [M20](/source/M20_motorway) motorways cross the parish to the north and south of Boxley village and the [High Speed 1](/source/High_Speed_1) railway line passes to the south in cuttings and tunnel. Despite being so close to Maidstone and two motorways, the village is surrounded by woodland, and still retains a village feel. The ruins of [Boxley Abbey](/source/Boxley_Abbey), in neighbouring [Sandling](/source/Sandling%2C_Maidstone), fall within the parish.

## Notable buildings

The [St Mary and All Saints parish church](/source/St_Mary's_and_All_Saints_Church%2C_Boxley) in Boxley village and the [Abbey Barn](/source/Boxley_Abbey_Barn), in [Sandling](/source/Sandling%2C_Maidstone), are Grade I [listed buildings](/source/Listed_building) and the site of the abbey is a [scheduled monument](/source/Scheduled_monument). Parsonage Farm in Boxley,[2] Boxley Abbey House and St Andrew's Chapel in [Sandling](/source/Sandling%2C_Maidstone), and Weavering Manor in Weavering Street, are all [Grade II* listed](/source/Grade_II*_listed).

The [Pilgrims' Way](/source/Pilgrims'_Way) [trackway](/source/Ancient_trackway) and the [North Downs Way](/source/North_Downs_Way) pass through the parish. Boxley village was used for scenes in the film version of *[Porridge](/source/Porridge_(film))*.

Within the parish are the [Kent Life](/source/Kent_Life) open-air museum, in [Sandling](/source/Sandling%2C_Maidstone), and Vinters Valley [Nature Reserve](/source/Nature_Reserve). A 19th-century [granary](/source/Granary) from Boxley was dismantled and re-erected at [Kent Life](/source/Kent_Life).

"Vinters" was a country house and home to the Whatman family until it was demolished in the 1950s.[3] [Susanna Whatman](/source/Susanna_Whatman) was the first of her family to manage the house and the guide she wrote was published in 1952 - about 200 years after her birth.

[The Maidstone Studios](/source/The_Maidstone_Studios) are located within the parish.

## See also

- [Listed buildings in Boxley](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Boxley)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ONS_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ONS_1-1) ["Civil Parish population 2011"](http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120990&c=Boxley&d=16&e=62&g=6437462&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1473932877156&enc=1). *Neighbourhood Statistics*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["PARSONAGE FARM, Boxley - 1185727 | Historic England"](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1185727). *historicengland.org.uk*. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["About The Reserve – Vinters Valley Nature Reserve"](https://vintersvalley.co.uk/about-the-reserve/). Retrieved 30 August 2020.

## External links

Media related to [Boxley](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Boxley) at Wikimedia Commons

- [Boxley Parish Council](http://www.boxleyparishcouncil.co.uk/)

Places adjacent to Boxley Burham Walderslade Bredhurst Aylesford Boxley Detling Thurnham Allington Maidstone Bearsted

v t e Towns and villages in the Maidstone borough of Kent, England Allington Barming Bearsted Bedmonton Benover Bexon Bicknor Boughton Green Boughton Malherbe Boughton Monchelsea Boxley Bredhurst Broomfield Caring Chainhurst Chart Sutton Chegworth Collier Street Coxheath Detling Downswood East Barming East Sutton Fairbourne Heath Frinsted Grove Green Harrietsham Hawkenbury Headcorn Hollingbourne Horden Hucking Hunton Kingswood Laddingford Langley Leeds Lenham Lidsing Linton Loose Maidstone Marden Marley Milebush Nettlestead Nettlestead Green Otham Otterden Park Wood Penenden Heath Pollhill Ringlestone (hamlet) Ringlestone (suburb) Sandling Sandway Shepway Staplehurst Stockbury Sutton Valence Teston Thurnham Tovil Ulcombe Walderslade Weavering West Farleigh Wichling Wormshill Yalding Yelsted List of places in Kent

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