Parish Noticeboard Makers In Cranleigh, Surrey

Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England. It lies upon a minor road east of the A281, which friends Guildford in the atmosphere of Horsham. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the main local remnant being Winterfold Forest directly north-west upon the northern Greensand Ridge.

Until the mid-1860s, the place was usually spelt Cranley. The Post Office persuaded the vestry to use “-leigh” to avoid misdirections to friendly Crawley in West Sussex. The older spelling is publicly visible in the Cranley Hotel. The publicize is recorded in the Pipe Rolls as Cranlea in 1166 and Cranelega in 1167. A Tiny later in the Feet of Fines of 1198 the state is written as Cranele. Etymologists consider anything these versions to be the mix of the Old English words “Cran”, meaning “crane”, and “Lēoh” that together mean ‘a woodland clearing visited by cranes’. The pronounce is popularly believed further on from imputed large crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French named Vachery Pond, often locally known as Vachery. The figure of a crane adorns the outmoded drinking water fountain of 1874 in ‘Fountain Square’ in the center of the village. A pair of cranes adorn the crest of the 21st century granted coat of arms of Cranleigh Parish Council.