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REIGATE , a market town and municipal borough in the Reigate parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 24 M. S. by W. of London by the South-Eastern & Chatham rail-way. Pop. (1901) 25,993. It is situated at the head of the long valley of Holmsdale Hollow, beneath the North Downs. A very fine prospect over a great part of Surrey and Sussex, and extending to Hampshire and Kent, is obtained from the neighbouring . Reigate Hill. Of the old castle, supposed tohave been built before the Conquest to command the pass through the valley, there only remains the entrance to a cave beneath, 150 ft. long and from to to 12 ft. high, excavated in the sandstone, which was used as a guardroom. The grounds are laid out as a public garden. Near the market house
commander
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Reigate (Cherchefelle, Regal, Reygate) owed its first settlement to its situation at a cross-road on the Pilgrim's Way, at the foot of the North Downs; and its early importance to the castle which was the stronghold of the De Warennes in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. On the death of Edith, the widow of Edward the Confessor, to whom it belonged, William I. secured the manor of Cherchefelle, as it was then called. It was granted by William Rufus to Earl
Earl
week , the eve and day of St Lawrence, and the eve and day of the Exaltation of the Cross, by prescriptive right. Edward II. granted a market on Tuesdays, which is still held. The fair
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