Reigate Caves — Attraction in Reigate and Banstead

The two caves in Tunnel road are spacious with no low places, easy walking with just a few steps - but not many! All three caves open in Reigate are completely different. Tunnel Road East is part a museum of local history and two of it's themes are on the School curriculum - the second world war at home and the cold war. The back half of the cave has a very laid back atmosphere - the sandstone absorbs noise and it's very still and totally quiet.

It's quite different from what you might expect and is regularly used as a set by film crews apparently - as is Baron's cave - which is 900 years old and a scheduled ancient monument, with tales of the Kings that visited the Castle above and who may have inspected the large Baron's chamber.

Installed after last years open days in East, there is a world war two blitz experience which is very atmospheric and show what it would be like for a family to shelter during an air raid.

Tunnel Road West has very atmoshperic large chambers in the back half discretly well lit to maximise effect. Used as an ammunition store in the first world war and both tunnel caves as air raid shelters in the second.

Afterwards it's interesting to see the door at the back of the Market Stores pub with 'Tunnels' on it and a c. 1900 enamel sign by it discovered recently in a rarely visited part of the cave system, probably from a cycle shop which used one of the caves at that time. The stores have their own cave but this is rarely open.

Worth doing all three - the two tunnel caves and Baron's a short - say max 4...

Fantastic experience, because it's run by volunteers it is also extremely cheap too! Make sure you keep an eye on the website for booking day, tickets go really quickly! You have to book both of these caves, it's very worth it! Very knowledgeable guides, super informative! I didn't find the caves that cold but do bring extra layers just incase 🙂 I took my kids with me, one 11 year old - she wasn't majorly impressed, a 6 year old - he was more scared of the idea at first but soon got into it, he did say he found it boring but then my 5 year old seemed to enjoy herself, the kids struggled with the tour guide side I think, but it was mainly just about the experience all round, we enjoyed being out in a new area we hadn't been to before. Thank you so much for the lovely day out, I, myself, had the best day! I thoroughly enjoyed the experience personally, want to take my mother if she is willing, so then I can experience the museum, I didn't make the family do that part as they were already struggling haha Ps, I found the parking at London road was super quiet, if you can handle the Ringo app and are OK with exiting through the entrance on the one way system, I had no problems, I think its one of the closer ones to the caves too. In barons caves, there's a dinosaur, sadly he isn't real but keeps the small ones entertained...

This was my second visit to the Reigate Caves as I have enjoyed my first visit so much. The tour was taken by a young lad called Philip, which he did an excellent job even it was his first one. There are two caves one in the west side and the other in the east which are separated by a tunnel road in 1823 and is the oldest road tunnel in the UK and even in the world. The beauty of the caves is the history behind them, how they have been used as a shelter during the Second World War, and before that were used as a sand mine and that the sand is so fine that it was called silver sand. The cave on the East side it was used a storage for wines and beers and you can still see the original layout. It's also houses a small museum with all the finds from the caves. The caves are open a few times a year and you can purchase tickets from...