Editing Reigate and Banstead (section)

==Geography==
The northern third of the borough is on the [[North Downs]] or its upper slopes.  Commanding viewpoints exist in several locations in this area with the southern aspects of [[Colley Hill]] and [[Reigate|Reigate Hill]] noteworthy enough to have had a major memorial and a picnic area with large café respectively. Historically much of this third was named ''Walton Heath'' and ''Banstead Heath''.

The softer [[Greensand Ridge]] which is parallel to the south breaks up in the middle of the borough, forming the [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]] basin and various mounds around [[Reigate]] before continuing in both directions at higher elevations, see the [[Greensand Way]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gridreferencefinder.com/|title=Grid Reference Finder|website=gridreferencefinder.com}}</ref>  The [[River Mole|Mole]] forms a section of the western border of the borough down to Wonham Mill at the western extreme of Flanchford in the Reigate [[post town]], itself at a millpond at the foot of the wooded ''Snag Brook'' a tributary which rises near the [[A25 road|A25 Dorking Road]].<ref name=osm>{{Cite web|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/|title=OpenStreetMap|website=OpenStreetMap}}</ref> Much of the borough is [[Metropolitan Green Belt]].

There are significant areas of forest and heath management, including five reserves within the national wildlife trust scheme: see [[Surrey Wildlife Trust]].