Box Hill

This section provides information about Box Hill. With its outstanding areas of woodland it is famous for its day trippers who throng to the park in thousands every year.

Tourists throng to Box Hill throughout the year to take advantage of the beautiful walks and spectacular views it offers.

Purchased for the nation by Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park, for £16,000 the Box Hill Estate originally 230 acres, was given to the National Trust in 1914.

Now, thanks to purchase, gifts and legacies the estate covers 1,200 acres.

Established as a Country park in 1971, with its outstanding areas of woodland, chalk downland and views over The Weald and South Downs, Box Hill is famous for its day-trippers, who visit in their thousands every year.

With its many beautiful walks and spectacular views, it has as much to offer the rambler as the naturalist, and is a great location for a family to go picnicking.

It also has an interesting past. During the late 1890s, a series of mobilisation centres were built as focal defence points in the event of invasion.

On the summit there is an information centre, shop with plant sales, servery for snacks and a fort dating from the 1890s (which is partly open to the public).