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Hindhead is a Village on the A3 in Surrey , about 10 miles south-west of Guildford . Neighbouring settlements include Haslemere , Grayshott and Beacon Hill . Liphook is the next major town southwards on the A3 . The village has been blighted for years by heavy traffic, and is now the only place on the A3 route that has not been bypassed. Detailed design of a tunnel to bypass the village has been completed; 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 6.5 Km dual two-lane highway and includes a 1.8 Km twin-bore tunnel, which will be the longest non-estuarial tunnel in the UK. The target completion date for the project is 2011 . A3 Hindhead Tunnel - Mott MacDonald Project Page 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 in Hindhead at the current site of St. Edmund's School (Hindhead) . Whilst Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived at Undershaw (which became a hotel and restaurant on the A3, now closed). SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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