Cranleigh

Cranleigh has long been associated with the unprovable title of "England's largest village": this settlement is part of the Waverley district of Surrey, and was until late Victorian times "Cranley". The Post Office insisted on changing the spelling to avoid confusion with nearby Crawley in West Sussex.

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The name is popularly believed to come from the large crane's breeding ground there; hence the crane on the top of the water fountain in the middle of the village, which was lately removed for the construction of a Sainsbury's supermarket in Stocklund Square (which was initially opposed by the majority but accepted as a good idea soon after it was built).

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Waverley: Waverley is the name of several different things....

Surrey: : This is about Surrey, England. There are also articles about other uses of the name Surrey....

Cranley: redirect Cranleigh...