Hindhead
Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the highest town in Surrey, with structures at in between 185 and also 253 metres over sea level. It is best known as the area 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 notorious blockage spot, where the A3 between Portsmouth as well as London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel as well as its path along the Punch Bowl has been gotten rid of and also landscaped, however the crossroads still exists for neighborhood traffic. Hindhead is centred 10.5 miles (16.9 kilometres) south-west of Guildford, the county town of Surrey, on the boundary with the county of Hampshire. It is a ward within the district of Waverley, and kinds 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 testified in 1571, as well as implies "hill often visited by hinds", or female deer.