Box Hill
Box Hill is a summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately 31 km south-west of London. It is named after the ancient box woodland found on the steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the River Mole.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 735 feet
- Description: hill in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Box Hill, Surrey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dorking railway station and Dorking Cricket Club Ground.
Dorking railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.
Dorking railway station, also known by National Rail as Dorking, is a railway station in Dorking, Surrey, England. Located on the Mole Valley line, it is 22 miles 8 chains down the line from London Waterloo.
Dorking Cricket Club Ground
Recreation area
Photo: Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dorking Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Dorking, Surrey. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1993, when the ground hosted a single Women's One Day International in the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup between Ireland women and West Indies women.
Dorking Deepdene railway station
Railway station
Photo: SteveCoast, Public domain.
Dorking Deepdene railway station is a railway station in the town of Dorking, Surrey, England. Located on the North Downs Line, it lies 29 miles 65 chains from London Victoria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pixham and Westhumble.
Pixham
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pixham is a chapelry within the parish of Dorking, Surrey on the near side of the confluence of the River Mole and the Pipp Brook to its town, Dorking, which is centred 1 km southwest.
Westhumble
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Westhumble is a village in south east England, approximately 2 km north of Dorking, Surrey. The village is not part of a civil parish, however the majority of the settlement is in the ecclesiastical Parish of Mickleham.
Box Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Mickleham, Mole Valley, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.24778° or 51° 14′ 52″ northLongitude
-0.31118° or 0° 18′ 40″ westElevation
735 feet (224 metres)Open location code
9C3X6MXQ+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 10880386149OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Box Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Box Hill”
- Chinese: “博士山”
- Dutch: “Box Hill, Surrey”
- French: “Box Hill (Surrey)”
- French: “Box Hill”
- Georgian: “ბოქს-ჰილი”
- German: “Box Hill (Surrey)”
- German: “Box Hill”
- Japanese: “ボックス・ヒル”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Box Hill i Surrey”
- Swedish: “Box Hill (kulle i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Box Hill”
- Welsh: “Box Hill, Surrey”
- Welsh: “Box Hill”
- Welsh: “Bryn Bocs”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Box Hill”. Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.