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Reigate and Banstead

Reigate and Banstead is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.

Reigate and Banstead
Reigate and Banstead · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Reigate and Banstead is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Reigate and the borough also includes the towns of Banstead, Horley and Redhill. Parts of the borough are within the Surrey Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Northern parts of the borough, including Banstead, lie inside the M25 motorway which encircles London.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Reigate and Banstead

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
    Bletchingley Castle

    Bletchingley Castle is a ruined castle and set of earthworks partly occupied by three buildings. The Scheduled Ancient Monument is directly beside the Greensand Way below it to the south in the village of Bletchingley in Surrey.

    3.8 km · castle 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.

    500 m · Further education college in Redhill, Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.2 km · park · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.5 km · church in Redhill, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed house in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Reigate Town Hall

    Reigate Town Hall is a municipal building in Castlefield Road, Reigate, Surrey, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.3 km · town hall in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3.5 km · castle in Reigate, 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.

    1.6 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.

    1.3 km · lake in Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nutfield Marshes

    Nutfield Marshes is a 62-hectare nature reserve near Nutfield in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    600 m · 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.

Go there

Getting to Reigate and Banstead

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 11 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Luton (LTN), 71 km
Stations
Redhill railway station, 1.1 km · Nutfield railway station, 3.1 km · Reigate railway station, 3.2 km · Earlswood railway station, 2.6 km · Merstham railway station, 1.8 km
  • Luton, Luton → Reigate and Banstead
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
  • London, Essex → Reigate and Banstead
    29 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £3–4.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Reigate and Banstead
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Reigate and Banstead

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 and Banstead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    102 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    314 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    416 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

    619 km

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Around it

Next door to Reigate and Banstead

Reigate and Banstead is 29 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Reigatetown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England3.4 km
  • Redhilltown in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England1.4 km
  • Nutfieldvillage and civil parish in Surrey, United Kingdom2.2 km
  • Earlswoodsuburb of Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Mersthamvillage in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • South Nutfieldvillage in Surrey, England, UK3.1 km