Hindhead, Surrey - view from Gibbet Cross - 1909 Beacon Hill pmk

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Hindhead, view from Gibbet Cross
• Publisher:  Friths series (Rollason, Hindhead)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  Edward VII light green half d.
• Postmark(s):  Beacon Hill, Haselmere Surrey Aug 1 1901 cds
• Sent to:  Miss Skinner, c/o Sir H. Vowas.., Little Hay, Burnley, Lancs.
• Notes / condition:  slight damage at top

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Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England, 10.5 miles south-west of Guildford and is the highest village in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 and 246 metres above sea level.^[2] Part of the area including the church forms the community of Beacon Hill, Hindhead. Its population was 3874 in 2001.^[3]

The place-name 'Hindhead' is first attested in 1571, and means 'hill frequented by hinds', that is to say deer.^[4]

The only neighbouring village is Grayshott; however less than three miles away to the north is Churt, Surrey and to the south is Haslemere, which has the nearest railway station.

Hindhead adjoins the south side of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a site of special scientific interest.

This area was notorious in times past for highwaymen; a Stephen Phillips who was a robber tried and convicted at the Old Bailey admitted to the Newgate chaplain to having stolen 150 guineas in gold on the road towards London in 1736.^[5] With an increase in traffic and opening of the London to Portsmouth railway line removing much of the freight being transported by road, such incidents were tamed during the 19th century. Gibbet Hill, a short walk away on top of the Devil's Punch Bowl, is where murderers and robbers were hung in chains to warn others.

Hindhead emerged as a substantial settlement in the late 19th century. In 1904 a temporary mission church was built to serve the new community. An architectural competition to design a permanent church, that of St Albans in Beacon Hill, was held in 1906, and John Duke Coleridge (1879-1934) was chosen as the architect. The first phase, comprising the chancel, north chapel, transept and the lower stage of a projected bell tower was completed by 1907, and the church gained its own parish in 1907. A series of windows by the important Arts and Crafts designers Karl Parsons (1884-1934) and Christopher Whall (1849-1924) was installed in the unfinished church between 1908 and 1912. The three eastern bays of the nave were consecrated in 1915, but the two western bays were not built until 1929-31; the bell-tower was never completed and became in effect a south transept. Two additional stained-glass windows followed by Christopher Webb in 1945 and Francis Skeat in 1950. A large vestry extension was added in 1964. A fire in 1999 destroyed the original high altar and reredos paintings.^[

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