Hindhead
Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the greatest town in Surrey, with structures at between 185 and 253 metres over water level. It is best called the area 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 blockage place, where the A3 between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 in between Hook as well as Haslemere. The A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its route along the Punch Bowl has been removed and also 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 boundary with the region of Hampshire. It is a ward within the area of Waverley, and also 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 attested in 1571, and implies "hillside often visited by hinds", or female deer.
