Reigate, a flourishing market-town in Surrey, 21 m. S. of London; is a busy railway centre; has interesting historic ruins; an old church, among others containing the grave of Lord Howard of Effingham.
Population (circa 1900) given as 23,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Reid, Sir William * Reign of a Hundred Days