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North Reigate

 Frenches Road145 Smithy nineteenth century connected with Battlebridge Brick and  Tile Works on site of Westway Gardens. Sand and gravel works Redhill sand caves. impressive cave opening, fire...

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Reigate Hill

 Allders RoadJuneberry 1955Alma Road7 1953Bell StreetLesbourne watercourse crossed the street but was culverted when the turnpike road was built in the early 19thReigate Priory.  18th mansion on site...

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Reigate Park

 Bell StreetReigate Park. Open space with lots of nice viewsCockshot HillCrawley Road. First Surrey Road to be improved  1696  as a saddle horse road but not for carriages until 1755.  In 1820 the...

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South Reigate

 Dovers Green RoadCrawley Road. First Surrey Road to be improved  1696  as a saddle horse road but not for carriages until 1755.  In 1820 the gradient was loweredSandcross Lane JunctionMilestone...

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North Reigate

 Batts Hill. Cast iron signpost at junction of Croydon Road Batts Hill House.British General Insurance Co. moved there in the Second World WarGatton Park RoadThis is the line of the 1804 turnpike road....

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Redhill North

 Gatton Park RoadThus Is the line of the 1804 turnpike road.Monson Road 99 was Parkes cycle works

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Earlswood

 RoyalEarlswoodHospital. This was an Immense Jacobean style building with a central tower. It was the Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives founded in 1847 and incorporated By Royal Charter in...

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Nutfield

 Cormongers LaneCockley Works. Fullers Earth Works. Side trails on the mine. Large pits were worked here for over 100 years into the 1980s but the plant was stripped out in 1981 and finally demolished...

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Nutfield

 Blacklands MeadowPark Works.  Park works was a collection of substantial brick buildings from the nineteenth century and constituted a processing plant.  It was demolished in 1988.  The cleared site...

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Nutfield Marsh

 Post to the east NutfieldNutfield MarshLeather Bottle Cottage. Warm texturePeyton’s Cottages 18th terracesCanalCottage on Nutfield Marsh has a name whichstands as a reminder of various canal schemes...

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Nutfield Station

Kings Cross Lane - Kings Mead EstateHousing Estate on old industrial landBrick and tile works.  This site operated until about the beginning of the 20th century but eventually became used by the...

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Nutfield

 Post to the north Warwick WoldPost to the east - end of postsPost to the south Nutfield Brook BletchinglyPost to the west Nutfield MarshGlebe QuarryGlebe Quarry. Work on the M23 in 1972 (not...

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KIlburn Station

 The North London LineThe north London line from West Hampstead Station turns south westwardsBarlow RoadBuilt on the site of the Midland Railway’s West End Sidings – a marshalling yard and goods...

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