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Cranleigh is a huge village and civil parish, self-proclaimed the biggest in England, concerning 8 miles (13 kilometres) southeast of Guildford in Surrey. It exists eastern of the A281, which links Guildford with Horsham, on an alternative route that is not an A-road. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the main local residue being Winterfold Forest straight north-west on the northern Greensand Ridge. Up until the mid-1860s, the place was generally meant Cranley. The Post Office encouraged the vestry to utilize -leigh to prevent misdirections to nearby Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling is publicly visible in the Cranley Hotel. The origin of the name is recorded in the Pipe Rolls as Cranlea in 1166 and Cranelega in 1167. A little later in the Feet of Fines of 1198 the name is created as Cranele. Etymologists think about all these versions to be the blend of the Old English words “Cran”, suggesting “crane”, as well as “Leoh” that together indicate ‘a timberland clearing up checked out by cranes’. The name is widely thought to come from imputed big crane-breeding premises at the Anglo-French named Vachery Fish pond, typically locally called Vachery. The figure of a crane embellishes the old drinking water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the middle of the village. A pair of cranes decorate the crest of the 21st century granted layer of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.