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The church was built in 1969.
©Ian Capper
Heading into Box Hill.
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This church on the top of Box Hill was originally in the parish of Brockham Green (whose parish church is in the village at the foot of the hill) but was moved in 1971 into Headley parish since the scarp of the North Downs is a physical barrier that isolated it from the former parish.
©Stephen Craven
looking south-east from the north side of Boxhill Road
©Andrew Longton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Several transmitter stations on the summit of Box Hill. It is an obvious location as on the other side of the wood the land falls sharply and so they can command a wide area including the M25.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>The main road through the diffuse settlement of Box Hill.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.4km<br/>Beside the North Downs Way
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.4km<br/>A telephoto shot from the tower on Leith Hill. Brockham Warren, on the North Downs near Box Hill, was built by Mackley Browne in 1816, and was subsequently the home of Sir Benjamin Vincent Sellon Brodie, Bt, the first president of the General Medical Council. In the far distance is Canary Wharf, over 40km away.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking across Brockham Quarry from the North Downs Way. In the near distance can be seen the quarry cottages, with Brockham village behind. In the far distance is Leith Hill.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.4km<br/>This track, which here loops back on itself, is apparently the former carriage drive to Oakwood House at the top of the hill. The drive begins at the public road at Boxhurst, about 1km to the west, and ascends at a very gentle average gradient of about 1:15, before arriving at a now disused gate [[847337]] into Oakwood House. By this means, horse drawn carriages would have been able to reach the house from the station and town at Dorking carrying a full load, and perhaps drawn up the hill at a decent trot for most of the way, compared with the ascent by the public road, [[855189]] (unsurfaced, and not easily apparent from the map), which rises much more steeply from Boxhurst to the car park of the Smith & Western restaurant at Box Hill. The North Downs way joins the upper part of the carriage drive here, as far as the gate (seen here in winter [[333212]]), before dropping down a series of steps to circle below the grounds of Oakwood House.
©Hugh Craddock
Dist:0.4km<br/>Steps on the route and a resting place with a view.
©don cload
Dist:0.4km<br/>See [[869819]]
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.4km<br/>The grave of "Quick", next to the North Downs Way. See [[869829]] for inscription.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking across Brockham Quarry from the North Downs Way, in autumn. On the far left can be seen the quarry cottages, with Brockham village behind. In the far distance is Leith Hill.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Footpath Dorking 44 (also here the North Downs Way) descends along Red Road, with fine views over Surrey, and on the other side, a bank of common spotted orchids.
©Hugh Craddock

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