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