HASLEMERE, a market-town in Surrey, England, 43 m. S.W. from London by the S.R. It is situated in an elevated valley between the ridges of Hindhead (895 ft.) and Blackdown (918 ft.). Their summits are open heath, but their flanks are wooded and deeply scored by steep valleys, of which the most remarkable is the Devil's Punch Bowl, a hollow on the west flank of Hind head. On Blackdown is Aldworth, built for Alfred, Lord Tenny son, who died here in 1892. George Eliot stayed for a considerable period at Shottermill, a neighbouring village. The population in 1931 was 4,34o.