page_title: Hindhead
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Hindhead / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: This photograph shows several of Arthur Conan Doyle's children playing on the driveway that leads to his home at that time, Undershaw.
context_page_description: Hindhead is a village in Surrey, England. It is the highest village in Surrey, with buildings at between 185 and 253 metres above sea level. It is best known as the location of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a beauty spot and site of special scientific interest, and as the site of the Hindhead crossroads, a formerly notorious congestion spot, where the A3 between Portsmouth and London was crossed by the A287 between Hook and Haslemere. The A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its route along the Punch Bowl has been removed and landscaped, but the crossroads still exists for local traffic.
  Hindhead is centred 10.5 miles south-west of Guildford, the county town of Surrey, on the border with the county of Hampshire. It is a ward within the district of Waverley, and forms part of the civil parish of Haslemere. The ward, which includes Beacon Hill, had a population of 3,874 at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 4,292 at the 2011 Census.
  The place-name "Hindhead" is first attested in 1571, and means "hill frequented by hinds", or female deer.
context_section_description: Grant Allen (1848–1899), the Canadian-born novelist, lived at "Hilltop". Conan Doyle was one of Allen's neighbours and became his friend; he completed Allen's novel Hilda Wade after Allen's death.
  Peter Alliss, professional golfer and commentator, lives in Hindhead.
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived at "Undershaw" from 1897 to 1907. Here he wrote some of his best-known novels, including The Hound of the Baskervilles. Undershaw later became a hotel and restaurant, but this closed in 2004 and the property is now a school. Conan Doyle was Hindhead Golf Club's first President in 1904.
  Miss James built and lived at West Down, donating land to the National Trust which now features Miss James' Walk and the Miss James footbridge over the A3 road.
  Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery KG, GCB, DSO, PC (1887–1976) took the title of "Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead in the County of Surrey" when he was raised to the peerage in 1946.
  Playwright George Bernard Shaw lived at "Blen Cathra" in Hindhead, now the site of St Edmund's School.
  The scientist John Tyndall (1820–1893) lived and died in the village at Hindhead House, now on "Tyndalls", named after him. He is best known for his work on the discovery of the Greenhouse Effect.
caption: Undershaw in Conan Doyle's day
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