The name Boxmoor derives from the box tree a bushy inhabitant of the chalky hills that surround the location.
Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises the largest area of native box woodland in England.
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The scent is not to everyone's liking: the herbalist John Gerard found it "evill and lothsome" and at Hampton Court Palace Queen Anne had box hedging grubbed up because the odor was offensive, Daniel Defoe tells.
The grounds were laid out in ornamental flower-beds bordered with box; box-trees of large size, with a great variety of fruit, among which were several immense mulberry-trees, dotted the garden.
The game makes use of one or more balls that are generally of boxwood, but higher-quality balls are of medlar.
The main industries in the 19th and 20th centuries were, as is the case in all of Olmes Country, were those of horn comb manufacturing (formerly made of boxwood) and spinning.
Today her plantings include mature specimens of Buxus sempervirens `Arborescens’ and `Suffruticosa’, Larix decidua, and Quercus robur.
The rotating cylinder is made from box wood (Buxus sempervirens), but the patent states it could be any material.
This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the wood cut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain, in hard box wood, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.
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It is commonly known as the box bug in the UK as it once only occurred in Box Hill in Surrey where it fed on box trees.