Reigate College

Reigate College is a state college in Reigate, Surrey, England, for students aged between 16-19 years of age. The college occupies part of the town centre between the High Street and railway station, and has approximately 2200 students.

Reigate College is a Beacon College which was graded by Ofsted as "Outstanding" in 2008.

Curriculum

The college offers predominantly GCE AS/A level and BTEC two year courses, with provision for students to enrol on an Intermediate Programme (pre- A Level) and GCSE re-sit courses. The college works through these programmes in partnership with parents and has a tutorial and guidance system to help and encourage students. Progress is monitored and evaluated, with additional support and specialist help offered to those who need it.

Feeder Schools

Recruiting or drawing from up to 100 state and independent schools each year, the college serves as a dedicated sixth form to four partner schools: Oakwood School, Reigate School, The Warwick School and de Stafford School

Reigate

Coordinates: 51°13′48″N 0°11′17″W / 51.230°N 0.188°W / 51.230; -0.188

Reigate /ˈraɪɡeɪt/ is a historic town in Surrey, England. It is in the London commuter belt and one of three towns in the borough of Reigate and Banstead. It is sited at the foot of the North Downs and extends over part of the Greensand Ridge. Reigate has a medieval castle and has been a market town since the medieval period, when it also became a parliamentary borough.

Colley Hill, one mile (1.6 km) north-west of Reigate, is 722 feet (220 m) high. Reigate Hill, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) due east of Colley Hill, is 771 feet (235 m) high, and they both have panoramas along the North Downs Way.

History

There are neolithic flint mines on the ridge of the North Downs above Reigate. Bronze Age settlement in the area is indicated by barrows on Reigate Heath. A Bronze Age spearhead was recovered on Park Hill in Reigate Priory Park. In 2004 a Roman tile kiln, dated from around AD 92 (pictured left), was recovered from the grounds of Rosehill in Doods Way. Tiles on the Rosehill site were first discovered in the 1880s. The tiles would have been used for important buildings in the area. The Rosehill find is the oldest recorded use of Reigate stone (ironstone of the Upper Greensand) for ashlar work.

Reigate (UK Parliament constituency)

Reigate /ˈraɪɡeɪt/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Crispin Blunt of the Conservative Party.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, the Sessional Division of Reigate, and part of the Sessional Divisions of Dorking and Godstone.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, the Urban District of Dorking, and the Rural Districts of Dorking (the civil parishes of Abinger, Capel, Dorking Rural, Effingham, Mickleham, Newdigate, Ockley, and Wotton) and Reigate (the civil parishes of Betchworth, Buckland, Burstow, Chaldon, Charlwood, Chipstead, Gatton, Horley, Kingswood, Leigh, Merstham, Nutfield, and Walton-on-the-Hill).

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, and the Rural District of Godstone (the civil parishes of Bletchingley, Burstow, Chelsham, Crowhurst, Felbridge, Godstone, Horne, Limpsfield, Lingfield, Nutfield, Oxted, Tandridge, Tatsfield, and Titsey).

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, and the Urban District of Banstead.

Reigate Hundred

Coordinates: 51°12′14″N 0°11′31″W / 51.204°N 0.192°W / 51.204; -0.192

Reigate was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It was geographically consonant with the southern two thirds of Borough of Reigate and Banstead together with two parishes in Tandridge and fractions of former parishes in the London Borough of Croydon and Borough of Crawley, West Sussex. Accordingly, it included the medieval-established town of Reigate with its motte castle and land which become the towns of Redhill and Horley

Scope

The Reigate hundred included the parishes of: Betchworth, Burstow, Buckland, Charlwood, Chipstead, Gatton, Horley, Leigh, Merstham, Nutfield and Reigate.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, the hundred was known as Cherchefelle; in 1199 it became known as Reigate.

Demise

Urban and rural sanitary districts alongside earlier poor law unions were organised to reflect the Industrial Revolution in a less manorial and parochial, patchy way in the 19th century. By the end of that century, civil parishes had subsumed the remaining civil functions of the vestry of each parish in the region, and many new functions such as road laying were passed to Surrey County Council which, with central government bodies, took on their remaining purpose, that of national and local poor relief taxation.