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Cranleigh is a big village and civil parish, self-proclaimed the largest in England, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Guildford in Surrey. It lies eastern of the A281, which connects Guildford with Horsham, on an alternative route that is not an A-road. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a big remnant forest, the major regional remnant being Winterfold Woodland directly north-west on the northern Greensand Ridge. Till the mid-1860s, the location was typically meant Cranley. The Post Office convinced the vestry to utilize -leigh to prevent misdirections to nearby 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 and also Cranelega in 1167. A little later in the Feet of Fines of 1198 the name is composed as Cranele. Etymologists take into consideration all these versions to be the fusion of the Old English words “Cran”, implying “crane”, as well as “Leoh” that with each other mean ‘a woodland clearing checked out by cranes’. The name is widely believed ahead from imputed huge crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French named Vachery Pond, often locally called Vachery. The figure of a crane decorates the old drinking water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the middle of the town. A pair of cranes decorate the crest of the 21st century granted coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.