Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the highest possible town in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 as well as 253 metres over sea level. It is best called the location of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot and site of special scientific interest, and also as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a previously notorious congestion spot, where the A3 between Portsmouth and also London was crossed by the A287 between Hook as well as Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and also its route along the Punch Bowl has been eliminated as well as landscaped, yet the crossroads still exists for regional website traffic. Hindhead is centred 10.5 miles (16.9 km) south-west of Guildford, the county town of Surrey, on the boundary with the county of Hampshire. It is a ward within the area of Waverley, and forms 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 attested in 1571, as well as implies "hillside often visited by hinds", or women deer.