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Cranleigh is a large village and also civil parish, self-proclaimed the largest 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 is in the north-west edge of the Weald, a big remnant woodland, the primary local residue being Winterfold Forest directly north-west on the north Greensand Ridge. Until the mid-1860s, the location was typically meant Cranley. The Post Office convinced the vestry to make use of -leigh to prevent misdirections to nearby Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling is openly noticeable 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 composed as Cranele. Etymologists think about all these variations to be the combination of the Old English words “Cran”, meaning “crane”, and also “Leoh” that with each other indicate ‘a woodland clearing gone to by cranes’. The name is famously believed to come from imputed large crane-breeding premises at the Anglo-French called Vachery Pond, often in your area known as Vachery. The figure of a crane embellishes the old drinking water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the middle of the town. A set of cranes adorn the crest of the 21st century given coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.