Reigate
Reigate | ||
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Photo of a mill in Reigate | ||
Coordinates | 51 ° 14 ′ N , 0 ° 12 ′ W | |
OS National Grid | TQ2649 | |
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Residents | 21,820 | |
Population density | ? Ew./km² | |
administration | ||
Post town | REIGATE | |
ZIP code section | RH2 | |
prefix | 01737 | |
Part of the country | England | |
British Parliament | Reigate | |
Website: reigateandredhill.co.uk | ||
Reigate is a town in Surrey in the south of England and has a population of 21,820. It is the administrative seat of the Borough of Reigate and Banstead , south of London .
history
Reigate is first mentioned under its former name Cherchefelle ("Kirchfeld") in the Domesday Book . William the Conqueror forgave the land around Reigate to William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey , whose son William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, had Reigate Castle built. The most important southern English base of the de Warennes, who were wealthy throughout England, was Lewes in Sussex . Around 1150 , the de Warennes finally had the Reigate settlement built at the foot of the castle, which replaced the former Cherchefelle. According to tradition, the barons rebelling against Johann Ohneland are said to have come together in the caves below Reigate Castle to work out the main features of the later Magna Carta . In the 13th century an Augustinian monastery was built in Reigate, which was secularized in 1535 and loaned by Henry VIII to William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, who converted the monastery into a country house. The Howards, who subsequently held high posts in the British Admiralty (William's son Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, became Lord High Admiral in 1585 ), used the property as their ancestral home. Today there is a school there.
traffic
Reigate is connected to the English railway network through its own train station. The North Downs Line has connections to London and Reading . Reigate is on the M25 , London's ring road, and the A25 road .
education
Reigate has six schools: Reigate School, Reigate Grammar School, Reigate Priory School, Reigate St. Mary's School, Royal Alexandra and Albert School, and Reigate College.
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Vernon Blake (1875–1930), author, journalist, painter, sculptor, inventor, cyclist and mountaineer
- Tom Chilton (* 1985), racing driver, born in Reigate and lives there
- Max Chilton (* 1991), racing driver
- Anne V. Coates (1925–2018), film editor
- Newton Faulkner (* 1985), singer and songwriter
- Margot Fonteyn (1919–1991), Primabellerina
- Baudouin Fraeijs De Veubeke (1917–1976), Belgian civil engineer
- Mary Hesse (1924–2016), science theorist
- Kate Maberly (born 1982), actress
- Caroline Quentin (* 1960), actress
- Fatboy Slim (* 1963), big beat musician, born and raised in Reigate as Norman Cook
Reigate related persons
- Ray Alan (* 1930), ventriloquist, lived temporarily in Reigate
- Kenneth J. Alford (1881–1945), composer, died in Reigate
- Cherith Baldry (* 1947), writer, lives in Reigate
- Alexander Ross Clarke (1828–1914), geodesist, died in Reigate
- Francis Frith (1822–1898), photographer, lived in Reigate and owned a business here
- Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), harpist, died at the age of 105 in Reigate
- Nicholas Owen (* 1947), television journalist, lives in Reigate
- Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), Romantic painter, lived for a time in Reigate, where he is also buried
- James Ussher (1581–1656), Anglican theologian, died in Reigate
- David Walliams (* 1971), comedian, went to school in Reigate
literature
- Reigate . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 23 : Refectory - Sainte-Beuve . London 1911, p. 52 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Reigate Society
- ReigateandRedhill.co.uk - Reigate Information