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Reigate - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | REIGATE, a market town and municipal borough in the Reigate parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 24 m. |
 | | Of the old castle, supposed to have been built before the Conquest to command the pass through the valley, there only remains the entrance to a cave beneath, 1so ft. long and from io to 12 ft. high, excavated in the sandstone, which was used as a guardroom. |
 | | Reigate (Cherchefelle, Regat, 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. |
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