The Climb Print
Box Hill, hairpin by hairpin.
Box Hill's Zig Zag Road, drawn across a slope of the Surrey Hills in contour lines: a 2.4 km climb from Mickleham to the top that gains 126 metres, averaging 5.2%.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Your own time on it, if you like.

What the print holds
Box Hill on paper
The climb starts in the upper left of the map, 54 m up, where Zig Zag Road leaves Old London Road at Mickleham, near the Burford Bridge Hotel. From there the road works south-east across the face of the slope in a long Z, doubling back twice, and the top lies near the bottom of the map: the junction at 180 m, by the National Trust café and viewpoint.
Each leg of the Z crosses the contour lines at a slant rather than heading straight up them, and that is how 126 m of height is spread across 2.4 km of road.
The profile underneath is short, three blocks in all. The first two kilometres both read 5.4%, and the print names the first of them as the steepest; the last part, the final 400 m, eases to 4.1%. Set beside the map, those three numbers describe a gradient that hardly changes between Mickleham and the top. Below the profile the row of facts gives the climb in five numbers: 2.4 km long, 126 m gained, 5.2% on average, the first kilometre as the steepest at 5.4%, and 180 m where the road tops out.
In 2012 this road was the climb of the London Olympic road races. The men's race, won by Alexandre Vinokourov, went round the Box Hill circuit nine times; the women's race, won by Marianne Vos, went round it twice. The road was resurfaced for the Olympics.
The National Trust looks after Box Hill, and the Salomons Memorial viewpoint is at the top.
Box Hill, kilometre by kilometre
The gradient of every kilometre, as the profile on the print colours it: 2.4 km, 126 m gained, 5.2% on average, the steepest kilometre the first at 5.4%.
- 15.4%
- 25.4%
- 3419 m4.1%
Three ways to draw Box Hill
The same road and the same profile each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of them.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Box Hill climb print: the questions
Why is the profile all one colour?
The print colours each kilometre by its gradient in five bands, from under 3% to 12% and over, and all three of Box Hill's readings, 5.4, 5.4 and 4.1%, fall within the same band, between 3 and 6%. A climb that changes pace shows as stripes of different colour; this one prints as a single shade from foot to top.
Can the viewpoint at the top be marked?
The print does not draw the Salomons Memorial viewpoint, or the café beside it, because it holds only the road and the slope it climbs. A named point placed on the viewpoint in the Studio puts it on the map, where the line ends.
Is the whole Olympic circuit on the print?
No. The line on the map is the Zig Zag Road itself, from Mickleham to the junction at the top, and the profile measures those 2.4 km. The Olympic road races climbed it as one part of a longer Box Hill circuit, and the rest of that loop is not drawn.
Where do the road and the gradients come from?
The road is OpenStreetMap’s, as Overture Maps publishes it, traced from Mickleham to Box Hill. The heights are the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, read every ten metres along the road, with the foot set to 54 m and the top to 180 m, the signposted heights; each kilometre’s gradient is measured on that line. Where the road runs through forest the elevation data can read a kilometre a point or so steeper or gentler than the tarmac, so the figure for a single kilometre is close rather than exact; the length, the height gained and the average are the climb’s.
Can I put my own time on it?
Yes. Type it in the Studio with the day you rode it, or bring in your Strava rides and choose the one: the Studio reads your time from the foot to the top off the track, rather than the whole ride. It sits in the corner of the print, where the other prints keep their statistics, and comes off again with one tap.
Can I have a climb that is not on this list?
Not as The Climb Print yet: each climb is traced from its road and checked against its published figures and its numbered bends before it is offered. Any mountain can be The Mountain Print, though, drawn in its own contour lines with the ride you recorded on Strava laid over it.
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Box Hill, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio: the treatment, the palette, your own words beneath and your time to the top in the corner. Order it when it is the climb you rode.
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