BOX-HILL, a railway station and a hill in Surrey. The station is on the Red Hill and Reading branch of the Southeastern railway, ½ a mile SE of Burford-Bridge, and 1½ ENE of Dorking. The hill adjoins the station; rises over the Mole river; has an altitude of 445 feet above the river's level; and commands a noble view from the south downs of Sussex to the N of London. Its N side is murally steep, and all verdurous; its W side, to the extent of about 230 acres, is covered with box; its ascent, from the main road, is provided with seats; and its summit is crowned with a cottage of its proprietor, H. T. Hope, Esq.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))