A report on Crawley and Reigate

Guildford is popularly regarded as the county town, although since 2020 Surrey County Council has been based at Woodhatch Place in Reigate, having previously been based at County Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames from 1893 until 2020.

M23 (north–south) in effect connects Croydon to Brighton as the dualled A23 trunk road to the north and beyond Crawley. It has junction to a spur to Gatwick Airport on the Surrey/Sussex border. It has a Surrey junction, the M25 Merstham interchange, close to the Reigate M25 junction.

The town, which adjoins the town of Reigate to the west, is due south of Croydon in Greater London, and is part of the London commuter belt.

Metrobus routes 400, 420, 430, 435, 460 and Fastway 100. These buses provide connections to Reigate, Sutton, Epsom, Caterham, Gatwick Airport, Crawley and East Grinstead

Gatwick Airport, also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, 29.5 mi south of Central London.

The A217 provides access northwards to the town of Reigate.

Horley is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England, south of the towns of Reigate and Redhill.

The county border with West Sussex is to the south with Crawley and Gatwick Airport close to the town.

The M23 is a motorway in the United Kingdom, running from the south of Hooley in Surrey, where it splits from the A23, to Pease Pottage, south of Crawley in West Sussex where it rejoins the A23.

The motorway was constructed between 1972 and 1975, at the same time as the southern section of the M25 from Godstone to Reigate (M25 junctions 6 to 8).

The catchment area receives 761 mm of rain each year; the greatest average level of rainfall is 800 mm around Crawley.

The Earlswood Brook, a tributary draining the urban area of Reigate and Redhill, joins the Mole at Sidlow.

Some areas, such as the flat plain around Crawley, have been utilised for urban use: here are Gatwick Airport and its related developments and the Horley-Crawley commuter settlements.

There are no large towns on the Low Weald, although Ashford, Sevenoaks and Reigate lie immediately on the northern edge.

Unlike the neighbouring towns of Guildford and Reigate, Dorking was never granted a Borough Charter and remained under the control of the Lord of the Manor throughout the Middle Ages.

Routes 21 (Epsom – Dorking – Crawley) and 22 (Shere – Dorking – Crawley) are run by Metrobus.

Kimberley Clark Europe is in the north of Reigate; Esure and Sheilas' Wheels is on the A25 south of Reigate College; Canon UK is to the south in Woodhatch.

Virgin Atlantic is off the A23, with Paslode UK (nail guns) next-door, on the Manor Royal Ind Estate in the north of Crawley, as is Edwards (former BOC Edwards), an international engineering company that makes vacuum pumps, with another plant on the A259 in Kingston by Sea, Shoreham.

It includes the towns of Reigate, Redhill, Horley and Banstead.

The borough borders the Borough of Crawley (in West Sussex) to the south, the Borough of Epsom and Ewell and District of Mole Valley to the west, Tandridge District to the east and the London Boroughs of Sutton and Croydon to the north.