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.
View over Reigate towards the North Downs
Reigate and Banstead
Banstead parish church
Town centre of Redhill
Reigate is a town in Surrey, England, around 19 miles (30 km) south of central London. The settlement is recorded in Domesday Book in 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.
Old Town Hall, High Street
One of the tunnels excavated through the Folkestone Beds beneath Reigate Castle
A Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, found in Reigate
The gatehouse folly was constructed in 1777.