# 🥾 Walk 18 - Box Hill, Surrey

On Saturday 18th November we held a joint walk with the Berkshire Walkers 20s & 30s group. This walk was inspired by a visit to Olympic cycling events that took place there earlier this year.

The walk started from outside Dorking Deepdene railway station and initially headed to Pixham and then Lower Boxhill Farm, where we began our ascent. We avoided the most direct route straight up the hill in favour of a slightly easier diagonal route going north-east to Brockham Warren before joining the North Downs Way going west to Box Hill Country Park. (An ascent of 163 metres or 535 feet.)

We walked through the country park at the top of the hill to the viewpoint (see picture) and then onto the National Trust café. Some of us had our picnic at the view point while others favoured the NT café with its tempting cakes!

![The view looking south from Box Hill](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume2/images/box_hill.jpg)

After lunch we headed down the hill to Westhumble, where we stopped at a local pub. Suitably refreshed, we carried on the walk, crossing the North Downs Way and passing through a vineyard on our way back to Dorking.

After the walk, a few of us had a second pub-stop while waiting for our train home. You can see our route on Google Maps.

![Some of us having our picnic lunch on Box Hill](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume2/images/box_hill_picnic.jpg)

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