Editing Reigate (section)

==Toponymy==
In the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, Reigate appears as ''Cherchefelle'' and in the 12th century, it is recorded as ''Crichefeld'' and ''Crechesfeld''. The name is thought to mean "open space by the hill or barrow".<ref>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1934|pp=281–282}}</ref><ref name=Poulton_1980>{{cite journal |last= Robert |first= Poulton |year= 1980 |title= Cherchefelle and the origins of Reigate |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol03/vol03_16/03_16_433_438.pdf |journal= London Archaeologist |volume= 3 |issue= 16 |pages= 433–436 |doi= 10.5284/1070630 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211021/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-457-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol03%2Fvol03_16%2F03_16_433_438.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>

The name "Reigate" first appears in written sources in the 1190s. Similar forms are also recorded in the late medieval period, including ''Reigata'' in 1170, ''Regate'' in 1203, ''Raygate'' in 1235, ''Rigate'' in 1344 and ''Reighgate'' in 1604. The name is thought to derive from the [[Old English]] ''rǣge'' meaning "roe deer" and the [[Middle English]] ''gate'', which might indicate an enclosure gate or [[mountain pass|pass]] through which deer were hunted.<ref name=Gover_1934_p304-305>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1934|pp=304–305}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ekwall|1966|p=384}}</ref> It has also been suggested that the "rei" element may have evolved from the Middle English ''ray'', meaning a marshland or referring to a stream;<ref>{{harvnb|Camden|1637|p=296}}</ref> this theory is considered unlikely as the Old English form of this word is ''ree'' rather than ''rey''.<ref name=Gover_1934_p304-305/>{{refn|The name "Wray Common" is thought to derive from the Old English ''(at)theree'' meaning "(at) the stream".<ref name=Gover_1934_p306>{{harvnb|Gover|Mawer|Stenton|1934|p=306}}</ref>|group=note}}

Woodhatch may derive from the Old English word ''hæc'' meaning "gate", and the name may mean "gate to the wood". It is possible, in this instance, that the "wood" referred to is the [[Weald]].<ref>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|pp=209–210}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Aubrey|1719|p=402}}</ref> In 1623, a survey of the manor of Reigate noted a "Bowling Alley lying before the gate of the Tenement called Woodhatch".<ref>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|p=149}}</ref> Alternatively, the name may derive from that of a local resident: A "Thomas ate Chert" is recorded as living at the settlement in the early 14th century, and "Woodhatch" might instead mean "woodland of the ate Chert family".<ref name=Gover_1934_p306/>