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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.
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.
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.
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 .
It is now named Reigate Hill, in a very steep section of the North Downs. The area become more urban at the bottom of the hill, on the northern outskirts of the town of Reigate. It passes through a level crossing next to Reigate station. It runs concurrently with the A25 through the main one-way system of Reigate town centre.
William de Warenne accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy and was the first Earl of Surrey and the builder of Reigate Castle. Against this pattern is the Reigate Castle Gate and oak tree. [34] The top of the shield has a black background as in the original Reigate arms but on which is a gold woolpack between two sprigs of oak.
Description: Map of Surrey, UK with Reigate and Banstead highlighted.. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 2 August 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData