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Cranleigh is a large town and civil parish, self-proclaimed the biggest in England, about 8 miles (13 km) 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 remains in the north-west corner of the Weald, a huge remnant forest, the primary neighborhood remnant being Winterfold Woodland straight north-west on the north Greensand Ridge. Till the mid-1860s, the location was usually led to Cranley. The Post Office encouraged the vestry to use -leigh to prevent misdirections to neighboring Crawley in West Sussex. The older punctuation is openly visible 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 written as Cranele. Etymologists think about all these variations to be the fusion of the Old English words “Cran”, suggesting “crane”, and also “Leoh” that together mean ‘a forest clearing visited by cranes’. The name is famously believed ahead from imputed big crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French named Vachery Pond, usually locally known as Vachery. The number of a crane decorates 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 approved coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.