Editing Cranleigh (section)

==Etymology==
Until the mid-1860s, the place was usually spelt '''Cranley'''. The [[Post Office]] persuaded the [[vestry]] to use "''-leigh''" to avoid misdirections to nearby [[Crawley]] in [[West Sussex]]. The older spelling is publicly visible in the ''Cranley Hotel''. The name is recorded in the ''[[Pipe Rolls]]'' as ''Cranlea'' in 1166 and ''Cranelega'' in 1167. A little later in the ''[[Feet of Fines]]'' of 1198 the name is written as ''Cranele''. Etymologists consider all these versions to be the fusion of the [[Old English]] words "Cran", meaning "[[Crane (bird)|crane]]",<ref>Pollington, Stephen, ''Wordcraft, New English to Old English Dictionary and Thesaurus'' 6th Ed., (2011), Anglosaxon Books, Ely, p.137</ref> and "Lēoh" that together mean 'a woodland clearing visited by cranes'.<ref>Ekwall, Eilert, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, Third Ed.'' (1951), Clarendon Press, Oxford, p.122</ref> The name is popularly believed to come from imputed large crane-breeding grounds at the Anglo-French named Vachery Pond, often locally known as Vachery.<ref>''Around Cranleigh'', p6. (See Bibliography.)</ref> The figure of a crane adorns the old drinking water fountain of 1874 in 'Fountain Square' in the middle of the village. A pair of cranes adorn the crest of the 21st century granted [[coat of arms]] of Cranleigh Parish Council.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cranleighpc.org/cranleigh_coat_of_arms.php |title=The Cranleigh Coat of Arms, Cranleigh Parish Council website |access-date=21 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215155418/http://www.cranleighpc.org/cranleigh_coat_of_arms.php |archive-date=15 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>