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.

Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Locality
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

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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.

Box Hill & Westhumble

Railway station

Photo: AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Box Hill & Westhumble is a railway station in the village of Westhumble in Surrey, England, approximately 2 miles north of Dorking town centre. Box Hill is located approximately 1⁄2 mile to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pixham and Westhumble.

Pixham

Village

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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.