From Salomons Lookout

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From Salomons Lookout
From Salomons Lookout

A view from the Lookout at Box Hill looking south , a view that will take in Sussex and the South Downs on a clear day .
The most notable sight on Box Hill is the view from the viewing platform. There can be a very clear view, roughly south over Dorking and further towards Gatwick Airport and right across to the South Downs, including Chanctonbury Ring and Devil's Dyke, Sussex (a distance of 26 miles, according to the inscription on the viewing platform). The Salomons Memorial is sometimes mistakenly thought to be at the summit of the hill, but the land continues to rise to the east. The highest point is at Betchworth Clumps, a wooded area to the south of the Hand-in-Hand public house, at an elevation of 224 metres (735 ft). The summit is occupied by a water tower and transmitter mast.
Leopold Salomons (14 May 1841 – 23 September 1915) was a city financier and company director active in the City of London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salomons was born into a British Jewish family, but it has been suggested that he later converted to Christianity. Today he is primarily remembered for his purchase of Box Hill in 1914 to protect it from development. He lived at nearby Norbury Park , later to become the home for a while to J P Spencer who ran a dry cleaning machinery production company that my father worked at for four decades .

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Taken on: June 13, 2018
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Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ60, f/5.0, 1/800 sec, 4.3mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Aperture: f/5.0
Exposure Time: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length: 4.3mm
ISO: 200
Exposure Bias: -0.486 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Landscape
Exposure Mode: Auto bracket
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Gain Control: Low gain up
Contrast: Low
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Ver.1.0
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