BOYTON, a parish in the hundred of WILFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (W.S.W.) from. Orford,
containing 284 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £5. 12. 1., and in the patronage
of the trustees of the late Mrs. Mary Warner.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The river Aide
runs through the parish, and communicates with Butley
creek or Eye. An almshouse was built in 1743, and
liberally endowed by Mrs. Warner, for six men and six
women: this number has been lately increased to sixteen,
each having two apartments, a garden, and an allowance
of 7s. a week, with a suit of clothes and one chaldron
of coal yearly.