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Headlam
Location within County Durham
Population41 (2021 census)
Civil parish
  • Headlam
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Ceremonial county
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54°33′56″N1°43′20″W / 54.56559°N 1.7223°W / 54.56559; -1.7223

Headlam is a hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England. It lies to the west of Darlington. [1] In 2021 the parish had a population of 41. The hamlet has 14 stone houses plus 17th-century Headlam Hall, now a country house hotel. The village is set around a village green with a medieval cattle-pound and an old stone packhorse bridge across the beck. Headlam is classed as Lower Teesdale and has views to the south as far as Richmond and to the Cleveland Hills in the east.

In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Headlam:

HEADLAM, a township in Gainford parish, Durham: 7½ miles WNW of Darlington. Acres, 780. Real property, £1,216. Pop., 102. Houses, 21. [2]

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References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 92 Barnard Castle & Richmond (Teesdale) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN   9780319228982.
  2. "A Vision of Britain Through Time: Headlam". www.visionofbritain.co.uk. GB Historical GIS/University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 18 March 2016.

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