Box Hill

'Somewhere called Box Hill,' I said, reading it on shopfronts.

In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

You won't get too much of a feeling as it is two laps of Box Hill rather than nine but you get a good feeling of the run-in which is quite important.

Mark Cavendish relishes chance to sample Olympic road race course 2011

The 250-kilometer course combines a central London circuit with a long loop into the Surrey Hills, via Putney, Richmond Park and Hampton Court and includes nine circuits of Box Hill.

USA Cycling finalizes 2012 Olympic selection procedures 2011

Thank goodness the London 2012 organisers are now trying to ensure that Box Hill, due to be climbed nine times by Mark Cavendish and his rivals during the Olympic men's road race next summer, will be open to more than the few hundred spectators allowed on its slopes during the test event earlier this year.

Roman Abramovich still playing his poker hand inside Court 26 | Richard Williams 2011

The short distance of Sunday's test event over the 2012 Olympic road race course will not make the event a replica of the race, believes Mark Cavendish, but the London-Surrey Classic will provide an invaluable opportunity to see the decisive section: the run in from the circuit around Box Hill through the south-west London suburbs to the finish on the Mall.

Mark Cavendish relishes chance to sample Olympic road race course 2011

Frederick McCubbin teamed up with Tom Roberts in Box Hill, an area on the edge of Melbourne that ap­p­eared in many early McCubbin paintings, including While the Billy Boils 1886.

Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

During these summers at Box Hill and Eag­le­mont, it must have been a fair­ly basic life­: food cook­ed as best they could over a fire, drought and flies by day, lighting by can­dles at night, beds made from sack­ing, no wifely com­panionsh­ip.

Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

Much later, in Chapter 43, on a trip to Box Hill, he must reprove Emma for an unkind remark to Miss Bates, an old friend.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

During these summers at Box Hill and Eag­le­mont, it must have been a fair­ly basic life­: food cook­ed as best they could over a fire, drought and flies by day, lighting by can­dles at night, beds made from sack­ing, no wifely com­panionsh­ip.

Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting Hels 2009

Frederick McCubbin teamed up with Tom Roberts in Box Hill, an area on the edge of Melbourne that ap­p­eared in many early McCubbin paintings, including While the Billy Boils 1886.

Australia's Own School of Landscape Painting Hels 2009