Headlam

{{Short description|Village in County Durham, England}}

{{For|people named Headlam|Headlam (surname)}}

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| official_name = Headlam

| civil_parish = Headlam

| country = England

| region = North East England

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| unitary_england = County Durham

| lieutenancy_england = Durham

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| population = 41

| population_ref = (2021 census)

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| static_image = Headlam Village - geograph.org.uk - 306878.jpg

| static_image_caption = A house in Headlam

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Headlam is a hamlet and civil parish in County Durham, England. It lies to the west of Darlington.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 92 Barnard Castle & Richmond (Teesdale)|ISBN= 9780319228982 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2011}} 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:

{{blockquote|text=HEADLAM, a township in Gainford parish, Durham: 7½ miles WNW of Darlington. Acres, 780. Real property, £1,216. Pop., 102. Houses, 21.{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4211 |title= A Vision of Britain Through Time: Headlam |publisher=GB Historical GIS/University of Portsmouth| website=www.visionofbritain.co.uk|access-date=18 March 2016}}}}