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Reigate è una cittadina di 21.820 abitanti della contea del Surrey, in Inghilterra . Si trova circa 40 km a sud del centro di Londra ed ospita i resti di un castello medievale. Altri progetti. Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Reigate. Collegamenti esterni. Reigate, su sapere.it, De Agostini.
- Reigate and Banstead
Reigate and Banstead è un borgo del Surrey, Inghilterra,...
- Reigate and Banstead
Reigate (/ ˈ r aɪ ɡ eɪ t / RY-gate) 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.
- 21,820 (electoral definition) or 22,123 (Built-up Area)
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- History
- Governance
- Geography
- Settlements and Parishes
- Economy
- Transport
- Twinning
- Coat of Arms
- Freedom of The Borough
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The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole of two former districts and part of a third, which were all abolished at the same time: 1. Banstead Urban District 2. Dorking and Horley Rural District (Horley and Salfords and Sidlow parishes only, rest went to Mole Valley except area of Gatwick Airpor...
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Surrey County Council, which is also based in Reigate, having its headquarters at Woodhatch Place. In the south of the borough are two civil parishes at Horley and Salfords and Sidlow, which form a third tier of local government for their ar...
The northern third of the borough is on the North Downs or its upper slopes. Commanding viewpoints exist in several locations in this area with the southern aspects of Colley Hill and Reigate Hill noteworthy enough to have had a major memorial and a picnic area with large café respectively. Historically much of this third was named Walton Heath and...
There are only two civil parishes in the borough, being Horley, and Salfords and Sidlow. The parish council for Horley has declared its parish to be a town, allowing it to take the style "town council". The pre-1974 borough of Reigate and urban district of Banstead form an unparished area. Settlements and suburbs in the borough include:
The economy is diverse, with a strong local service sector, city workers as most locations are easily within the London Commuter Belt, trades, a developed public/education sector and several farms concentrated towards cereal and root vegetable agriculture. There is an extent of woodland management. Several employers with an international renown are...
Roads
The M25 motorway passes from the middle of the east of the borough to just south of the tripoint with Epsom and Ewell and Mole Valley and has two junctions, one for the M23 motorway that passes through the eastern side of the borough north–south and starts in the northeast of the borough, the other at Reigate Hill. The A23 road from London splits into the ongoing A23 from the south and the M23 at Hooley. The A217 road is a second London road starting in Reigate via Banstead and Sutton and on...
Rail
The main train operator in the borough is Southern, with other services being operated by Thameslink and Great Western Railway. Through routes are the North Downs Line and the more heavily used London to Brighton line that has several operators plus several branch service routes operating to London (the destination in the borough of one such service is Reigate). Although these are the main railways for long and short-distance travel, two branch lines cut through lower parts of the North Downs...
The borough is twinnedwith: 1. Brunoy in Essonne, Île-de-France, France 2. Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The coat of armsis a combination of the elements of the Reigate shield, the device of Banstead and symbols of the parishes of Horley and Salfords and Sidlow. The shield has a background of blue and yellow chequers taken from the arms of the de Warenne family. William de Warenne accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy and was the first Earl ...
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Boroughof Reigate and Banstead.
Reigate (/ ˈ r aɪ ɡ eɪ t /) is a constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Crispin Blunt, originally of the Conservative Party, but as of October 2023, sitting as an Independent, after having the whip suspended.
- 72,043 (December 2010)
Reigate Tunnel is a former road tunnel in Reigate, Surrey, England. It runs under the hill that was once the site of Reigate Castle and was built during 1823, although some sources report that it only opened in 1824. The narrow and short tunnel formerly carried the A217 road, and is now pedestrianised. It is grade II listed.
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.
