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The town centre is, save for the castle, focused on Bell Street, leading south, and a long High Street/West Street conservation area with shops, cafés, bars and restaurants. Between the streets is a Morrisons supermarket. The other central supermarket is an M&S. Reigate has a tea room, independent toy shop and delicatessen.
There are a total of nine licensed pubs and bars in the town centre.
The most popular park in Reigate is the Priory Park, adjoining Reigate Priory School and located south of the High Street and west of Bell Street, which has recently been redesigned. It has a recreation area for smaller children as well as football fields, tennis courts, a skatepark, woodland and large Priory Pond, draining over a small weir. Priory Park also has an Urban Kitchen Café set in a building named 'The Pavilion' which also houses bulletin boards for the people of Reigate.
Reigate is also home to Pilgrim Brewery which moved to its West Street address in 1984. The brewery was the first new brewery in Surrey for over a century and is well known for the quality and variety of beers brewed with the local water.
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