Reigate Hundred

The Hundred never had a significant administrative roles which were carried out by various urban and rural sanitary districts alongside earlier poor law unions which were organised to reflect the Industrial Revolution in a less manorial and parochial, patchy way in the 19th century.

By the end of that century, civil parishes had subsumed the remaining civil functions of the vestry of each parish in the region, and many new functions such as road laying were passed to Surrey County Council which, with central government bodies, took on their remaining purpose, that of national and local poor relief taxation.

[4] The division of land amounts to the southern two-thirds of the modern borough of Reigate and Banstead subjected to reduced boundaries losing approximately 4.7 square kilometres (plus the loss of outlying easterly Burstow and Nutfield to Tandridge and loss of Gatwick Airport to West Sussex much of which was in Horley and Charlwood) — in 1933 a relatively large 269 acres (1.09 km2) of Chipstead and 884 acres (3.58 km2) of Merstham in the north were lost to elevated Coulsdon within Greater London.

[5][6] As with Chipstead, Coulsdon is in an upper valley and plateau of the North Downs however has more railway stations and is a post town.

Burstow's main settlement and 'village' today has become what was once its medium-sized hamlet or neighbourhood of 'Smallfield' and it has spawned an entirely independent village since the early 20th century, Outwood, Surrey.