Cranleigh is a big village as well as 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 remains in the north-west edge of the Weald, a big remnant forest, the primary local residue being Winterfold Woodland straight north-west on the north Greensand Ridge. Till the mid-1860s, the area was usually meant Cranley. The Post Office persuaded the vestry to utilize -leigh to prevent misdirections to close-by Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling 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 variations to be the combination of the Old English words "Cran", meaning "crane", as well as "Leoh" that with each other suggest 'a timberland cleaning seen by cranes'. The name is commonly thought to find from imputed huge crane-breeding premises at the Anglo-French called Vachery Pond, typically locally referred to as Vachery. The number of a crane decorates the old alcohol consumption water fountain of 1874 in 'Fountain Square' in the middle of the town. A set of cranes embellish the crest of the 21st century approved layer of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.
