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 referred to as the place of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot and also site of special scientific interest, and as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a formerly well-known blockage spot, where the A3 in between Portsmouth as well as London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its course along the Punch Bowl has been eliminated as well as landscaped, but the crossroads still exists for neighborhood web traffic. Hindhead is centred 10.5 miles (16.9 km) 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, raising to a population of 4,292 at the 2011 Census. The place-name "Hindhead" is first proved in 1571, and also indicates "hill often visited by hinds", or female deer.