A stone’s throw from London, Box Hill has been a coveted place of great natural beauty for centuries of city dwellers.

A lot of breath has been spent, and ink spilled, describing the splendour of ‘the strongest and most simple of our southern hills’ over the years. Jane Austen's heroine Emma in the 1816 novel of the same name visited Box Hill to discover what ‘…everybody found so much worth seeing’.

Box Hill’s great beauty is matched by its richness of wildlife. As the Head Warden describes, it is ‘an island of diversity, in a countryside where the variety of habitats is rapidly declining'.

Information centre, shop and servery available.

Walking distance from train station: approx 20 mins (½ml).