BOX HILL

Introduction
Aim: How tourism affects Box Hill

My hypothesis:
1. The further from the path you travel the more plants there are.
2. The further from the path you travel the deeper the soil goes.
3. The further from the path you travel the taller the plants.

Geology:
At the bottom of Box hill is chalk, which contains very poor nutrients and soils and few
plants grow there leaving bare grounds of stones. However at the top of Box Hill there are
clay soils with flint with contain good nutrients and so theres allot of flora such as trees,
grass and other plants. The hill takes its name from the ancient box woodland found on the
steepest west-facing chalk slopes overlooking the River Mole. The western part of the hill is
owned and managed by the National Trust, whilst the village of Box Hill lies on higher
ground to the east.
Flora:
On the improved grassland there are around 5 species in a space of 1m squared. ON the
unimproved grassland, there is around 40-50 different types of grass and flowers.
Fauna:
In Box Hill there are around 14-20 different species of insects and mammals. Box Hill also
has the largest slug called The Ash Black.
Did you know? ...
Trees have dominated many terrestrial (land) habitats for the past 300 million years
An individual tree can live for more than 1,000 years; some trees on Box Hill are more than
600 years old
When the branch of a yew tree touches the ground it can root and grow into a new yew tree
Hawthorns have lots of other names, including quickthorn and May, because they always
flower in the month of May
Holly trees are either male or female, only female trees have red berries
Gin is made from Juniper berries; you can see Juniper trees growing outside the servery
Despite the Box tree giving Box Hill its name, Beech trees are actually the most common
tree growing here
























Site of Box Hill on Google
maps with a compass
direction of direct north.
Location: Tadworth, Surrey,
KT20 7LB
Sampling approaches










Systematic Stratified Random
Description Taking samples at
regular known
distances, e.g. every
fourth shop, or at the
points of a regular grid
over an area. Used
when there is an
expected change
between two location
Selecting a sample to
take account of
something known
about the area or
about the people
being surveyed, e.g.
Number of males and
females in town.
Selecting a sample by
chance usually based
on publishing random
number tables. This
avoids subjectivity and
bias in the selected
process. Used when
the environment or
population is expected
to be similar
everywhere.

Level of difficulty Straightforward- you
can just get on with it.
More complicated
because information
about the location is
needed to select the
sites

Need random number
of tables to do it
properly.
Advantage The results will be
easier to understand
You already know
some background
information.

Need hard work is
needed
Disadvantage Completed because
information about the
location is needed

The results may be
hard the understand
Sampling strategy i will use. Systematic Random
Why i am using this strategy. When collecting data for the foot
erosion path
When collecting data for the
questionnaire
Number of supplies i will collect. 5 points of results. 8 to 10 results.


Method




Average pedestrian count
Definition : A study and analysis of the number and kinds of people passing by a particular
location, determining the potential buying power in a given area.
Site

Tally
1

13
2

28
3

12
4

04
Average pedestrian count

14
Method of collecting data. Advantage of this method. Disadvantage of this method.
Pedestrian count See the amout of tourest
come in area, every few
minutes.

There is more than one
entrance to Box Hill
Traffic flow See the amout of tourest who
come in a vehicle

There is more than one
entrance to Box Hill
Litter survey The amout of litter that is not
placed incthe bin.

Some litter is not visable
Bi polar analysis Opinion on how good you
thing the area is

Your own opinion
Car registration Where tourists travel from to
get to Box Hill

Some cars are from different
countries
Questionnaire Tourest or locals thoughts on
the impact of tourism on Box
Hill.

Most people who were there
were locals
Foot path erosion To see how much tourism
changed the landscape

Not all the area is covered by
the trysquare.

Traffic flow

Site Minibuses Coaches Cars Other

1

2 1 6 1
2

1 0 12 7
3

0 0 7 5
4

1 0 12 7
5

0 0 6


Litter survey
Site Wrappers Cans Cigarette buts Other
1

25 0 25 9
2

12 0 8 2
3

2 0 1 0
4

1 0 4 0



Here is an example
of litter at site 1
Here is one of the car carks around
Box Hill outside Rikkis cafe




Bi Polar Analysis
Definition: Bipolar analysis is a technique for comparing things. A sample population is used to rate
something



Site 1 1 2 3 4 5
Noisy

Peaceful
Unattractive
scenery


Attractive
scenery
Lots of liter

No litter
Poor visitor
information


Good
visitor
information
Overcrowded

Good
balance of
people and
space
Not natural
habitat


Natural
habitat
Path erosion

No path
erosion
Unattractive
buildings


Attractive
buildings
Poor visitor
facilities


Good
visitor
facilaties



Site 2 1 2 3 4 5
Noisy

Peaceful
Unattractive
scenery


Attractive
scenery
Lots of liter

No litter
Poor visitor
information


Good
visitor
information
Overcrowded

Good
balance of
people and
space
Not natural
habitat


Natural
habitat
Path erosion

No path
erosion
Unattractive
buildings


Attractive
buildings
Poor visitor
facilities


Good
visitor
facilaties


Site 3 1 2 3 4 5
Noisy

Peaceful
Unattractive
scenery


Attractive
scenery
Lots of liter

No litter
Poor visitor
information


Good
visitor
information
Overcrowded

Good
balance of
people and
space
Not natural
habitat


Natural
habitat
Path erosion

No path
erosion
Unattractive
buildings


Attractive
buildings
Poor visitor
facilities


Good
visitor
facilaties


1 2 3 4 5
Noisy

Peaceful
Unattractive
scenery


Attractive
scenery
Lots of liter

No litter
Poor visitor
information

Good
visitor
information
Overcrowded

Good
balance of
people and
space
Not natural
habitat


Natural
habitat
Path erosion

No path
erosion
Unattractive
buildings


Attractive
buildings
Poor visitor
facilities


Good
visitor
facilaties




1 2 3 4 5
Noisy

Peaceful
Unattractive
scenery


Attractive
scenery
Lots of liter

No litter
Poor visitor
information


Good
visitor
information
Overcrowded

Good
balance of
people and
space
Not natural
habitat


Natural
habitat
Path erosion

No path
erosion
Unattractive
buildings


Attractive
buildings
Poor visitor
facilities


Good
visitor
facilaties













Questionnaire
Definition: a set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the
purposes of a survey or statistical study.

Tourist:
1. Are you a tourist?
2. Where have you come from?
3. How did you get to Box Hill?
4. What is your nationality?
5. Why are you visiting Box Hill?
6. What do you like most about Box Hill?
7. What do you like least about Box Hill?
8. Have you visited anyother tourist places in the area?


Local:
1. What is your occupation?
2. Is tourism a good thing for Box Hill?
3. What do you like most about Box Hill?
4. What do you like least about Box Hill?
Here are visitor information bards at site 1.
Here are some more visitor information board ate site 3



Person 1 Person
2
Person
3
Person 4 Person 5 Person 6 Person
7
Person 8
Q1 No No No No Yes

Yes No No
Q2 retired retired retired unemployed Warning-
ham

Crandon retired Florist
Q3 The view Scenery Scenery scenery van car Fresh
air

cycling
Q4 The
motorway
Too
crowdie
Car
park
Car park
price
British British Bumpy
roads

Weekend
cars
Q5 work Visited


Q6 View

View
Q7 National
trust
National
trust


Q8 no No























Footpath erosion
Definition: footpath erosion is the wearing away or erosion of a footpath
typically seen where excessive number of people walks

Vegitation heught categories
1 <2cm
2 2-5cm
3 5-24cm
4 25-100cm



Site Point 1 Point 2 Point 3 Point 4 Point 5
No
Vegetation
1

100 30 50 10 100
In an area 2

100 100 90 80 100
In 3

90 100 5 25 60
% 4

10 0 1 2 3



Site Point 1 Point 2 Point 3 Point 4 Point 5
Vegetation
height
1 1 1 1 1 1
Category

2 2 2 2 2 2
See 3 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

table 4 3 3 3 3 3








In conclusion I do not think that Box Hill is effected by tourism that much. Firstly because in
my questionnaire out of eight people in which is asked only 2 of them where no locals. This
accusation can be wrong as on the previous day our teacher said that the car parks and
pretty much of the whole of Box Hill was covered by people mainly being bikers, who stop
there on their journey for a break. Secondly the about of letter that was still lying on the
ground, from the day before, was less than half of what I expected. Thirdly the amount of
vehicles that were parked was very little.
On the other hand, the amount of footpath erosion was worse than I expected as a lot of
places had a few meters of no vegetation (except for site 5 as the hill had barely any erosion
as shown on my table). The amount of tourist information given at Box Hill was mind
Here is an example of my
group and I collecting data
for footpath erostion.
blowing for me as every were I turned I could see at least one board full of information or
leaflets.
In my opinion Box Hill does not have many risks except for the stepping stones, steep hill
(up and down), and you can only get hurt through stupid mistakes, but there are sighs there
telling you to watch your step.

When we went to the vineyard, I found that the vineyard is more for tourists as there were
trips that you could book to go round the whole vineyard while the tour instructor spoke
information to you. There is also a caf and souvenir shop. The car pack yet being quite
empty I found were mush bigger than the one at Box Hill.