Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the highest village in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 and also 253 metres above water level. It is best referred to as the location 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 well-known blockage area, where the A3 in between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 between Hook as well as Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its path along the Punch Bowl has actually been eliminated as well as landscaped, however 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 county of Hampshire. It is a ward within the area of Waverley, and kinds part of the civil parish of Haslemere. The ward, that 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 confirmed in 1571, and means "hill often visited by hinds", or female deer.