Hindhead
Hindhead is a town in Surrey, England. It is the highest possible town in Surrey, with structures at between 185 and 253 metres over water level. It is best called the location 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 congestion area, where the A3 between Portsmouth and also London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and also Haslemere. The A3 currently passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and also its path along the Punch Bowl has been removed and also landscaped, yet 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 boundary with the region 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 confirmed in 1571, and means "hillside often visited by hinds", or women deer.