Hindhead, Surrey - 'The Deed' poem Royal Huts Hotel 20s

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• Picture / Image:  The Deed - a poem from an original picture at the Royal Huts Hotel, Hindhead
• Publisher:  P. Rollasen, Hindhead
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Hindhead is a village on the A3 in Surrey, about 11 miles south-west of Guildford. Neighbouring settlements include Haslemere, Grayshott and Beacon Hill. Liphook is the next major town southwards on the A3. Hindhead is the highest village in Surrey.

The village has the A3 running straight through it, and has therefore been blighted for years by traffic queues. The Hindhead crossroad is the only crossroad on the A3 and is the only place which is not dual carriageway. Therefore a new project has started: the Hindhead Tunnel. This is for the A3 to bypass Hindhead and avoid queueing. Construction work began on 8 January 2007. This £371 million project will remove the A3 from both Hindhead and the nearby Devil's Punch Bowl. The scheme consists of a 4-mile (6.4 km) dual two-lane highway and includes a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) twin-bore tunnel, which will be the longest non-estuarial tunnel in the UK. The target completion date for the project is Summer 2011.^[2]

Near Hindhead is the Devil's Punch Bowl, a site of special scientific interest. This area was notorious in times past for highwaymen and lawlessness and was only "tamed" in the 19th Century when the London to Portsmouth railway line removed much of the freight being transported by road. Gibbet Hill above the Devil's Punch Bowl is where murderers and robbers were hung in chains to warn others.

George Bernard Shaw, playwright, lived at "Blen Cathra" in Hindhead, now the site of St. Edmund's School, whilst Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived at "Undershaw" from 1897 to 1907. It was here that he wrote some of his most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Undershaw later became a hotel and restaurant on the A3. It is now closed and, after a proposal to turn it into flats was denied, the Hindhead council had to step in and do some repairs. Another author to live at Hindhead was Grant Allen (1848-99), who lived at "Hilltop." Arthur Conan Doyle was one of Allen's neighbours and became his friend. It was Doyle who completed Allen's novel Hilda Wade when Allen died. Also the relatively well-known scientist John Tyndall lived in the village at a house now on "Tyndalls", named after him. He is most famous for his work on the discovery of the Greenhouse Effect.