🌳 Outdoor🆓 Free entry
What’s there
- Paid parking
- Dogs welcome
Margery Wood car park is pay-to-park for non-National Trust members (validate via machine or JustPark app); blue badge parking at Fort Lane and Margery Wood. A servery and toilets are at Wray Lane car park, which is not run by the National Trust.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Reigate Fort sits on the top of Reigate Hill on the North Downs and is one of the forts built along the North Downs in the late 1890s to protect London. Families can walk up to the gates, explore the fort grounds and look for the features that show how the site was used, including its gates, tool store and magazine. The National Trust cares for the site after restoration work with grants and volunteers, and it is open most days with free entry. The surrounding Reigate Hill and Gatton Park is a good place for an easy walk with children, with the North Downs Way passing the fort and a wartime plane crash memorial along the path nearby. The inside buildings are generally open only by special arrangement, so families should check before visiting if they want to go inside. Dogs on leads are welcome across the hill.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Wellies
Wristband for lost childrenWrite your number on it before you go in.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Waterproof jacket- Audiobook or story CD
- Sun cream for after
Extra jumper
Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
Kids' headphones
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