Mogador is a

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in the

Reigate and Banstead Reigate and Banstead is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Reigate and the borough also includes the towns of Banstead, Horley and Redhill. Parts of the borough are within the Surrey ...

district, in the county of

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, England. It is at the edge of Banstead Heath, which provides it a green buffer from other communities, and about from the top of the north-facing

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of the

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. At an elevation of about it is one of the highest settlements in south-east England. It is just north of the

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. The nearest settlement is Lower Kingswood, through which Mogador is accessed by road. Other nearby settlements include the hamlet of Margery, the villages of Kingswood, Tadworth and

Walton-on-the-Hill Walton-on-the-Hill is a village in the Reigate and Banstead district, in the county of Surrey, England. It is midway between the market towns of Reigate and Epsom. The village is a dispersed cluster on the North Downs centred less than one m ...

, and the town of

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. The area surrounding the hamlet is a mixture of

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and

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, with

Colley Hill Colley Hill is part of the North Downs escarpment in the North Downs, Surrey, England. It is about 1 km east of Buckland Hills and 1 km west of Reigate Hill, all of which form part of the same escarpment. It is centred south of London and form ...

and Reigate Hill to the south and east being

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land. Other common land areas nearby include Walton Heath and the Buckland Hills. The

North Downs Way The North Downs Way National Trail is a long-distance path in South East England, opened in 1978. It runs from Farnham in Surrey to Dover in Kent, past Guildford, Dorking, Merstham, Otford and Rochester, through the Surrey Hills National Lan ...

passes immediately to the south of the hamlet. The hamlet gave its name to the

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which provides the service to Lower Kingswood and most of Kingswood, now included in the 01737

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. Located here is The Sportsman pub. This is said to be one of Henry VIII’s hunting lodges.

Name

Mogador takes its name from the family name of Richard Maggot, a local landowner in the fifteenth century, combined with ''haw,'' an enclosed piece of land. By 1618 this had developed into ''Maggothaw'', before gradually mutating into its present form.

Transport

;Road The closest junction of the M25 is Junction 8, Reigate Hill, just east, for the A217 and A240. ;Rail The nearest station, Kingswood, is north.

References

Hamlets in Surrey Reigate and Banstead {{Surrey-geo-stub