Hindhead
Hindhead is a town in Surrey, England. It is the highest village in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 and 253 metres above sea level. It is best known as the location of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot and site of special scientific interest, and as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a formerly well-known congestion area, where the A3 between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and also its route along the Punch Bowl has been removed and landscaped, yet the crossroads still exists for regional website traffic. Hindhead is centred 10.5 miles (16.9 kilometres) south-west of Guildford, the county town of Surrey, on the border with the area of Hampshire. It is a ward within the district of Waverley, and also forms part of the civil parish of Haslemere. The ward, which includes Beacon Hill, had a population of 3,874 at the 2001 census, enhancing to a population of 4,292 at the 2011 Census. The place-name "Hindhead" is first proved in 1571, as well as means "hillside often visited by hinds", or female deer.