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Hindhead is a village in the Waverley district of the ceremonial county of Surrey, England. It is the highest village in the county and its buildings are between 185 metres (607 ft) and 253 metres (830 ft) above sea level.
The A333 is a short, straight road close to the north-west edge of civil parish of Haslemere which it runs within. It climbs between the Hazel Grove junction of the A3 trunk road and the centre of Hindhead, the highest village in the county, in high semi-rural parts of the Waverley (district) at the south-west corner of Surrey.
The Hindhead Tunnel project shortened the route by about 300 m (980 ft) and routed the road through a tunnel whose northern and southern portals are at altitudes of 190 m (620 ft) and 200 m (660 ft) above sea level respectively.
Beacon Hill, while administratively and ecclesiastically part of Hindhead, Surrey, is a discrete settlement with its own history, amenities and character.It lies in the southwest corner of Surrey on the A287 road between the towns of Haslemere and Farnham.
Gibbet Hill, at Hindhead, Surrey, is the apex of the scarp surrounding the Devil's Punch Bowl, not far from the A3 London to Portsmouth road in England.The road used to pass close to Gibbet Hill, but has now been superseded by the Hindhead Tunnel and the road returned to nature.
Electric street lighting with sodium lamps was installed between 1952 and 1955. [107] The Hindhead and District Electric Light Company was formed in 1901 and opened an electricity generating station in Hindhead village in the same year. [130] [133] [note 10] The first mains electricity cables were laid from Hindhead to Haslemere and Shottermill ...
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In 2011, the Hindhead Tunnel became the centrepiece of the Hindhead bypass, away from the road through the village, where the only urban set of traffic lights on the route outside London had created a bottleneck. Until 2011, the road through Hindhead was the last single-carriageway section of the route, outside London and Portsmouth.