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Colley Hill is its western continuation — officially considered a crest or scarp reaching (at grid reference TQ255521) 771 feet (235 m), a point usually simply but confusingly known as Reigate Hill. "Reigate Hill" also defines a neighbourhood of the town of Reigate, and is also a ward of Reigate and Banstead.
Gatton Park is a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and gardens by Henry Ernest Milner and Edward White at Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England. Gatton Park is now partly owned by The Royal Alexandra and Albert School and partly by the National Trust.
Earlswood Common is an 89.1-hectare (220-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Redhill in Surrey.It is owned and managed by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council. [1] [2]Habitats on the common include woodland, semi-improved grassland, two large lakes, several ponds and wetland corridors.
Earlswood is a suburb of Redhill in Surrey, England, which lies on the A23 between Redhill (in the direction of London) and Horley (next to Gatwick Airport). Earlswood Common is a local nature reserve that separates the suburb from the southern outskirts of Reigate and has two lakes and picnic areas.
Map: Details: This is an area of floodplain meadow on the bank of the River Thames. Over 400 plant species have been recorded and 108 bird species, including lesser whitethroat, reed bunting, reed warbler and sedge warbler. [20] Chinthurst Hill: 17.2 hectares (43 acres) Guildford
An updated guide with maps and walk directions is available online from the Kent and Surrey Council websites. The original guidebook is out of print. [ 5 ] On Ordnance Survey Explorer map 145, a spur – also labelled Greensand Way – is shown from Thursley to Farnham ; this is not part of the path.
Reigate Heath is a 61.7-hectare (152-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Reigate in Surrey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An area of 51.6 hectares (128 acres) is also a Local Nature Reserve . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Seven bowl barrows dating to the Bronze Age are designated Scheduled Monuments .
There was a succession of raids in November 1940, including on the 7th when Colley Hill and Reigate Hill were attacked. [128] Towards the end of the war, in 1944, the Tea House café on top of Reigate Hill was destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb. [129] For much of the war, Reigate was the headquarters of the South Eastern Command of the British Army.