Warlingham is a town in the Tandridge area of Surrey, England, 14.2 miles (22.9 km) south of the centre of London and 22.3 miles (35.9 km) east of the county town, Guildford. Warlingham is the centre of a civil parish that consists of Hamsey Green, an adjoining, smaller settlement to the north. Caterham is the local community, 2.0 miles (3.2 kilometres) to the southwest. The name indicates the home(stead) (-ham) of the fans (-(l)ing) of Waer(l)a. The letters "ae" below are the indicated earlier punctuation of any type of Anglo-Saxon scribes to represent the sounds, which when Norman scribes replaced them was replaced with "a" as in today's orthography. No trace of a regional Warra or Warla has been found in Norman messages (after 1066), neither of a Waera or Waera in Anglo-Saxon messages (prior to 1066). It is a male's name of the period which has a comparator in Warrington. Today, the majority of Warlingham's working-age population works in Croydon or central London, making Warlingham part of the London traveler belt.