Headlam | |
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Location withinCounty Durham | |
Population | 41 (2021 census) |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Durham |
Fire | County Durham and Darlington |
Ambulance | North East |
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Headlam is a hamlet andcivil parish inCounty Durham, England. It lies to the west ofDarlington.[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 stonepackhorse bridge across the beck. Headlam is classed as Lower Teesdale and has views to the south as far asRichmond and to theCleveland 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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