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Reigate

Reigate is a town in Surrey, England, around 19 miles (30 km) south of central London.

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The place

Reigate is a town in Surrey, England, around 19 miles (30 km) south of central London. The settlement is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as Cherchefelle and first appears with its modern name in the 1190s. The earliest archaeological evidence for human activity is from the Paleolithic and Neolithic, and during the Roman period, tile-making took place to the north-east of the modern centre.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Reigate

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Colley Hill

    Colley Hill is part of the North Downs escarpment in the North Downs, Surrey, England. It is about 1 km east of Buckland Hills and 1 km west of Reigate Hill, all of which form part of the same escarpment.

    2.3 km · hill in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Surrey College

    East Surrey College is a general further education college in the north of the town of Redhill, Surrey, England. As of 2014, the college has over 2,500 classroom-based students and 1,000 community learners.

    3.5 km · Further education college in Redhill, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hartsfield Manor

    Hartsfield Manor is an early Victorian house of historical significance located in Betchworth, Surrey, England. It was built in the 1860s as a private residence and served this purpose for several notable people until World War II. After this it became a hotel and then a training centre.

    4.1 km · early Victorian house of historical significance located in Betchworth, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Reigate Castle

    Reigate Castle is a former castle in the town of Reigate in the county of Surrey, England. None of the castle buildings survive today, but a cave below the site, considered to be part of the castle, still exists.

    200 m · castle in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Earlswood Common

    Earlswood Common is an 89.1-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Redhill in Surrey. It is owned and managed by Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

    2.3 km · park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St John's, Redhill

    St John's is a hamlet on the fringes of Redhill, Surrey, England. The small elevated residential community occupies a conservation area encircled by Earlswood and the wooded Redhill Common, which is connected along two low to mid rise streets with typically woodland-style gardens to Reigate.

    2.2 km · church in Redhill, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Reigate Priory

    Reigate Priory is a Grade I listed building in Reigate, Surrey, England. It was founded in the first half of the 13th century as an Augustinian priory.

    200 m · Grade I listed house in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Andrew's Church

    The Church of St Andrew, Gatton is a Church of England church in Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England. It is a Grade I listed.

    3.5 km · church in Gatton, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mercers Lake

    Mercers Lake is a body of water in Mercers Park, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey. It is a former quarry that has been adapted for water sports, such as sailing, kayaking, and paddle boarding.

    4.8 km · lake in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns

    Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns is a 27-hectare nature reserve north of Betchworth in Surrey. Betchworth Quarry only is managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    4.5 km · park · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Reigate Castle

    2 High St, Reigate RH2 9PU (north of High Street).

  2. 02
    Reigate Caves

    Open 5 times a year.

  3. 03
    Barrons Cave

    RH2 9AY.

  4. 04
    Tunnel Caves

    Tunnel Rd, RH2 0JY.

  5. 05
    Reigate Fort

    Fort Lane, Margery Hall, RH2 9RN.

  6. 06
    Inglis Memorial

    Reigate Hill Path, KT20 7BA.

From Wikivoyage: Reigate, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    The Surrey Hills Adventure Company

    Park Drive, Betchworth RH3 7FE,.

From Wikivoyage: Reigate, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Buenos Aires Argentine Steakhouse

    2-4 London Rd, RH2 9AN,.

From Wikivoyage: Reigate, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Reigate

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 10 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Luton (LTN), 72 km
Stations
Redhill Aerodrome, 5.4 km · Redhill railway station, 2.8 km · Nutfield railway station, 5.2 km · Betchworth railway station, 4.4 km · Salfords railway station, 5 km
  • Luton, Luton → Reigate
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Reigate
    31 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £3–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Reigate
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £21–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Reigate

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Reigate. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.

From Wikivoyage: Surrey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    98 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    419 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    583 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    618 km

If you know how people move in Reigate – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Reigate

Reigate is 31 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Redhilltown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England2.3 km
  • Reigate and Bansteadlocal government district with borough status in Surrey, England3.5 km
  • Brockhamvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England5.6 km
  • Betchworthvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England4.2 km
  • Bucklandvillage and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, UK3.5 km
  • Nutfieldvillage and civil parish in Surrey, United Kingdom5.1 km