Banstead is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England. It is 3 miles south of Sutton, 5 miles south-west of Croydon, 8 miles south-east of Kingston-upon-Thames, and 13 miles south of Central London. On the North Downs, it is on three of the four main compass points separated from other settlements by open area buffers with Metropolitan Green Belt status.