Cranleigh
Cranleigh is a large town and also civil parish, self-proclaimed the biggest in England, regarding 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Guildford in Surrey. It lies east of the A281, which links 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 woodland, the main neighborhood residue being Winterfold Woodland straight north-west on the north Greensand Ridge. Till the mid-1860s, the place was generally led to Cranley. The Post Office encouraged the vestry to make use of -leigh to avoid misdirections to neighboring Crawley in West Sussex. The older punctuation 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 versions to be the combination of the Old English words "Cran", meaning "crane", and also "Leoh" that together imply 'a timberland clearing up seen by cranes'. The name is commonly thought ahead from imputed large crane-breeding premises at the Anglo-French called Vachery Fish pond, commonly in your area called 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 provided coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.