built around a 15th-century hall, enlarged in the next century and again enlarged and partly rebuilt in the 1920s. The Grade II* listed houses are Hill House Farmhouse at Middlehill, 16th and 17th century; Coles Farmhouse at Alcombe in the north-west of the parish, mid-17th century; Drewett's Mill on the By Brook below Box Hill, mid-18th century; Cheyney Court, Ditteridge, early 17th century; and Rudloe Manor, to the west near Corsham, four bays, late 17th-century. Both portals of Middlehill Tunnel and the west portal of Box Tunnel are also Grade II* listed. Fogleigh House on London Road is a Grade II listed mansion, built for quarry owner C J Pictor in 1881. Springfield House, Grade II, was built in 1729: formerly a workhouse and a school, the three-storey building has been converted into flats. Box Primary School is also Grade II listed. Facilities Box is home to Box Church of England Primary School. The earliest school was established near the church in 1708; the present building on the High Street, with attached house, is from 1875. Pevsner describes it as "Gothic, with a terrible, spindly tower". The Selwyn Hall (built 1969) is used for community functions and houses the village library. The village has sporting facilities including a lawn bowling green, two tennis courts, a cricket pitch, a football pitch, and even a small basketball area. These are all located in or around the Recreation Ground (a piece of land with an area of about ). Box Rock Circus Also on the recreation ground is the unique 'Box Rock Circus', a diameter circle which is an earth-science educational facility. It was constructed during 2012 by local craftsmen with stone donated by numerous companies and funded principally by landfill tax funds. The facility was formally opened on 14 May 2013 by the Professor of Geosciences Communication, and television personality, Iain Stewart. Notable residents Rev. W. V. Awdry (1911–1997), the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, lived as a boy at Lorne House on London Road, Box Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), doctor and publisher linked to the verb bowdlerize, born in Box Arthur Bradfield (1892–1978), cricketer Ernest Butler (1919–2002), professional footballer for Portsmouth Peter Gabriel (born 1950), rock musician, singer, songwriter, and proprietor of Real World Studios Maisie Gay (1878–1945), actress on stage and later in films, also a singer and comedian, managed the Northey Arms with her husband after her retirement in