Hindhead
Hindhead is a town in Surrey, England. It is the highest possible village in Surrey, with buildings at in between 185 and 253 metres over water level. It is best called the place of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot and site of special scientific interest, and as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a previously well-known blockage spot, where the A3 between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel as well as its route along the Punch Bowl has been eliminated and landscaped, however the crossroads still exists for local 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 district of Waverley, as well as types 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 proved in 1571, as well as implies "hill often visited by hinds", or female deer.
