Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the highest village in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 as well as 253 metres above sea level. It is best known as the area of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot as well as site of special scientific interest, and also as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a formerly notorious congestion area, where the A3 in between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its route along the Punch Bowl has been removed and also landscaped, yet the crossroads still exists for neighborhood 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 area 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, increasing to a population of 4,292 at the 2011 Census. The place-name "Hindhead" is first proved in 1571, and also suggests "hill frequented by hinds", or female deer.