Box Hill is a pretty good middle-class eastern suburb of greater Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Via the freeway it is 14 km's from the central business district of Melbourne. The present municipality of Box Hill has an official population of just below 12 000 people. For administrative functions, Box Hill is currently part of the City of Whitehorse.

Before the arrival of Europeans the location had been the location of the Wurundjeri Aboriginal people. The initial European land owner was Arundel Wrighte whom took up a pastoral contract on the property in 1938. Box Hill had been officially declared a city in 1927 with it growing in the subsequent century into their own city. In 1871, the population of the township was 154 and it was mainly orchards, vineyards and other blended types of agriculture. During this time the town had been a core market centre for the fruit and vegetables that have been grown in the area back then. Box Hill was assimilated into greater Melbourne in the 1950’s included in the eastern continuing development of Melbourne. The particular name of Box Hill had been chosen at a assembly in 1860 of local people submitted a variety of popular location names. A contest occured and was won by a local store owner, Silas Padgham, who was later the very first postmaster for the area. Silas had been born in Box Hill in Surrey, England, so this end up being the term for the new town.

Nowadays, Box Hill is renowned for its considerable Chinese neighborhood with over 65% of the population not born in Australia. Box Hill boasts Melbourne’s tallest high rise properties away from the CBD and because of this is often known as Melbourne's second city. It has today developed into a major transport centre for the eastern suburbs with among the most busy suburban train and bus facilities. It provides a leading hospital that initially launched in 1956 and also a sizeable shopping precinct. The location is served by 3 high schools and a TAFE along with many primary schools and kindergartens.

A large landmark within Box Hill would be the old Surrey Dive which was a well-known swimming hole. It was never ever the best lake, but a pit which was dug to provide clay for the brick manufacturing plant close by, beginning in 1880 that was filled up with water. There are actually several unverified gossip and accounts around drownings in the Dive. Surrey Dive was developed at that time into amongst Australia's leading swimming competition settings. It was intended for competition before the 30's, when a pool ended up being constructed next to the Dive. The building of the brickworks still exist however has not operated for a very long time and it has ended up being the victom of graffiti artists and vandals recently. As a result now it is fenced off and decaying. The massive smokestack continues to cast a shadow over the dive. The Dive is currently an attractive lake and the home for the model boat club. The Dive is not useful for swimming. That old brickworks is a secured heritage site.