Hindhead is a town in Surrey, England. It is the highest town in Surrey, with structures at in between 185 and 253 metres over water level. It is best referred to as the place of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot as well as site of special scientific interest, and as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a previously infamous congestion place, where the A3 in between Portsmouth as well as London was crossed by the A287 in between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel as well as its path along the Punch Bowl has actually been eliminated 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 district 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, enhancing to a population of 4,292 at the 2011 Census. The place-name "Hindhead" is first testified in 1571, and also means "hillside often visited by hinds", or female deer.