Friends of Box Hill

Ann Sankey will be leading a spring walk in the woods on Sunday 6th May at 10.30am from the East Car park along the Box Hill Road.  Hopefully the Bluebells will still be looking and smelling beautiful by then and we will look for other signs of spring.  If you would like to come along […]

Although David Kennington has retired as NT General Manger for Surrey Hills Countryside, he and Tracy are still happy to host this very popular event in their garden by Warren Farm Barns. £8 per head. All FOBH members and their guests are welcome. Please ring Lyn on 01737 842889 or email: lyn@mra.uk.net to book places […]

Henry Barnard, NT Lead Ranger for North Downs West, will lead us on a walk around Abinger Roughs.  Henry will talk to us about the history of the area and show us some ancient trees linked to the Abinger Hall Estate as well as the flower sprinkled grassland.  We will take a look at a […]

Mark Dawson, NT Lead Ranger for Box Hill and Headley, will lead us through Box Hill Farm to the riverside to see how this area has developed since the farm was acquired and the riverside walk reinstated in 2016. We will have a walk along the riverside with a picnic by the water. Mark will […]

From April to September a succession of beautiful blue butterflies can be seen on Box Hill. This talk will look at their very different lifestyles and will focus particularly on how Box Hill is playing a key role in a Butterfly Conservation project aimed at increasing numbers of Small Blues between Guildford and Reigate. The […]

AGM and Winter Talk, on Saturday 2nd February, 2.30pm in the Templeton room at Juniper Hall. Following the AGM, James Power, National Trust Wildlife Adviser for London and South East, will talk to us about the NT policy on Land, Outdoors and Nature and how NT is working to improve their land, especially farmland, for […]

Nick Unwin will take us on a walk on Box Hill to see what birds are around and help us identify their songs. The walk will start from the Information Pentagon outside the shop and go wherever the birds lead us. It will be a reasonably gentle walk but may involve going part way down […]

Join us for a walk on Headley Heath led by the NT Ranger, Federico Ghittoni.  Feddy will show us round various parts of the Heath telling us about the significant conservation work done over the last few years to improve the heathland, create open chalk grassland, and protect the ponds for wildlife.  The walk will […]

David and Tracy Kennington will host this very popular event in their garden by Warren Farm Barns. £10 per head. All FOBH members and their guests are welcome. Please ring Lyn on 01737 842889 or email: lyn@mra.uk.net to book places so we can order the right amount of food.

A walk from Juniper Hall Field Studies Centre led by their staff.  We will open up some small mammal traps and look at the moth trap from the previous night and also look under reptile refuges on site.  We will then be shown how FSC work with biodiversity at the centre (looking at blue butterfly […]