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Cranleigh is a huge town 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 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 woodland, the primary neighborhood residue being Winterfold Forest directly north-west on the northern Greensand Ridge. Until the mid-1860s, the place was usually led to Cranley. The Post Office persuaded the vestry to make use of -leigh to stay clear of misdirections to nearby Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling is publicly visible in the Cranley Hotel. The beginning 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 take into consideration all these versions to be the fusion of the Old English words “Cran”, meaning “crane”, and also “Leoh” that with each other suggest ‘a forest clearing visited by cranes’. The name is popularly thought to come from imputed large crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French called Vachery Fish pond, frequently locally referred to as Vachery. The number of a crane adorns the old drinking water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the middle of the village. A set of cranes decorate the crest of the 21st century provided layer of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.