Headlam
A house in Headlam
Headlam Location within County Durham
Population	41 (2021 census)
Civil parish	Headlam
Unitary authority	County Durham
Ceremonial county	Durham
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Durham
Fire	County Durham and Darlington
Ambulance	North East
List of places UK England County Durham 54°33′56″N 1°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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