BOXWELL, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of GRUMBALD'S-ASH, county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (B. by S.) from Wootton under Edge, containing, with the chapelry of Leighterton, 297 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £23. 4. 9§., and in the patronage of the Rev. R. Huntley. The church is dedicated, to St. Andrew. There are quarries of freestone within the parish, which is intersected by the river Froome. A nunnery here is stated to have been destroyed by the Danes; the possessions were subsequently annexed to the abbey of Gloucester.