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Cranleigh is a large village as well as civil parish, self-proclaimed the biggest in England, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Guildford in Surrey. It exists east of the A281, which connects Guildford with Horsham, on an alternative route that is not an A-road. It remains in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant woodland, the major regional residue being Winterfold Forest directly north-west on the north Greensand Ridge. Till the mid-1860s, the area was normally led to Cranley. The Post Office encouraged the vestry to use -leigh to prevent misdirections to close-by Crawley in West Sussex. The older punctuation is publicly noticeable in the Cranley Hotel. The beginning of the name is recorded in the Pipe Rolls as Cranlea in 1166 as well as Cranelega in 1167. A little later in the Feet of Fines of 1198 the name is created as Cranele. Etymologists consider all these variations to be the fusion of the Old English words “Cran”, meaning “crane”, and also “Leoh” that with each other imply ‘a timberland clearing checked out by cranes’. The name is popularly believed to find from imputed large crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French called Vachery Pond, frequently locally known as Vachery. The number of a crane embellishes the old alcohol consumption water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the middle of the village. A pair of cranes adorn the crest of the 21st century given coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.