Map of Boxford, Massachusetts in 2026

Boxford is two villages: East Boxford, around the old center, and West Boxford, with woods, ponds and stone walls in between. This map prints Washington Street, Killam Hill Road, Willow Road, Endicott Road, Ipswich Road and Middleton Road, with Cedar Pond, Johnsons Pond, Berry Pond, Lake Cochichewick, Aslebe Hill, Austin Hill, Bald Hill and Killam Hill. Click here to purchase a print of this map for your wall.

Boxford is in Essex County, near the county’s geographic center and 24 miles north of Boston.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data and gave it the look of an old atlas. The roads and the town line come from the Census Bureau, and the relief from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The highest ground is Bald Hill, at 243 feet, in a corner of the Boxford State Forest near Interstate 95 and the Middleton line. Boxford covers 24.4 square miles, heavily wooded and crossed by streams, many of them running down to the Ipswich River on its southern border, and it had 8,203 people in 2020.

Rowley Village

When the English arrived, this land was under the Agawam sachem Masconomet, whose people had been devastated by epidemics in 1617 to 1619. The Town of Boxford’s recorded history, in the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s list, dates European settlement to 1645; the town page says Abraham Redington settled here in 1646, when it was part of Rowley Village. Boxford was incorporated as a town in 1685, when about forty families lived here, and the town remains part of Essex County today. It wasn’t until 1700 that the selectmen paid Masconomet’s grandson, Samuel English, nine pounds for the rights to the town’s land.

Most early settlers farmed, with some craftsmen among them, and small farms still dot the town. The First Church went up in East Boxford in 1701. As West Boxford grew, the legislature made it a separate parish in 1735, and from then on town meetings took turns between the East and West parishes; West Boxford built its first church in 1774. The town’s largest industry was a match factory on Lawrence Road, which ran from 1866 to 1905.

The old center

The Boxford Village Historic District takes in the early center along Main Street and Topsfield Road, with stretches of Middleton Road, Elm Street, Depot Road and Cross Street, and holds a remarkable number of buildings from the late 18th century or earlier. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Among them is the Holyoke-French House, a First Period house that the Boxford Historical Society runs as a museum.

In 1975, for the American Bicentennial, Boxford people went to England to visit two villages named Boxford and find where their town’s name came from. They settled on Boxford in the Babergh district of Suffolk as the likely source. The next summer, villagers from Boxford, Suffolk, came over for two-week homestays with local families, an exchange that the Evening Standard and the BBC’s Nationwide program both covered.

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Around the map

Start in West Boxford, then follow Washington Street, Killam Hill Road, Willow Road, Endicott Road, Ipswich Road and Middleton Road across town, and look outward toward East Boxford, East Parish and Kinsman Corner. Stiles Pond, in the middle of town, has the town beach, and Camp Rotary, a summer boarding camp, sits on the pond off Ipswich Road. Baldpate Pond and its state recreation area are good for swimming, fishing and boating, and the Boxford State Forest’s trails wind through thick woods near Topsfield and Middleton. Each fall the town holds its Apple Festival. Lake Cochichewick is North Andover’s water supply, in the neighboring town to the west. Berry Pond, Cedar Pond, Lake Cochichewick, Johnsons Pond, Aslebe Hill, Austin Hill, Bald Hill and Killam Hill are all printed on the map.

Boxford’s map makes a fine addition to an office, library or den, and it can help teach children the geography and history of the town that went looking for its name in Suffolk. It’s made for people who call Boxford home, from West Boxford to Kinsman Corner, and it shows the town as it looks today. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Boxford, Massachusetts map.

Sources

• Boxford, Massachusetts, Wikipedia
• Boxford Village Historic District, Wikipedia
• Lake Cochichewick, Wikipedia
• City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (archived copy)