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Boyce is a small incorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, in the northern Shenandoah Valley, located along U.S. Route 340 about 6 miles southwest of Berryville, the county seat.

As of the 2020 census, Boyce had a population of 749, up from 589 in 2010 and 426 in 2000, when the town counted 159 households.

The town of Boyce began in 1881 with the arrival of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad at its crossing with the Millwood Turnpike, in what was then dense woods.

Boyce was named for Colonel Upton L. Boyce, who lived at the nearby Tuleyries estate and was influential in persuading the railroad to pass through Clarke County.

Boyce was incorporated by the Clarke County Circuit Court on November 28, 1910, with a recorded population of 312; its current charter dates to 1973.

The Norfolk & Western Railway erected a large new station in Boyce in 1912-1913, praised in The Clarke Courier for its concrete platforms, long train shed, and electric lighting; the historic depot still stands and the town is home to the Boyce Railway Depot Foundation and the Railway Mail Service Library Foundation.

The town covers a total area of just 0.35 square miles, all of it land.

Boyce served as the shipping point for the nearby village of Millwood, about 2 miles to the southeast, and sits about 9 miles southeast of Winchester.

Despite sitting in Clarke County's rural west, Boyce is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan statistical area.

The town has kept much of its early-20th-century railroad-town character, with the rail line still passing through the center of its business district.