Traditional county: County Durham · Region: North East
Explore Headlam, County Durham with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Headlam map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Headlam, County Durham, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Headlam |
| Traditional County | County Durham |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.565531 |
| Longitude | -1.722298 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Headlam exhales a quiet, enduring stillness across the rolling expanse of the County Durham landscape. It lies 5.7 miles south-south-west of Shildon (from Shildon: bearing 214°T, OS grid NZ 180 189), and is situated south-south-east of Ingleton village. The Green serves as a central anchor for the hamlet, a stretch of open turf where the light catches the dew long after the morning has surrendered to the day. Nearby, the Packhorse Bridge remains a rigid, stone-wrought reminder of older ways of passage, its arch framing a stillness that belongs more to the past than the present. To the south-south-east, Headlam Beck traces a narrow, silver line through the fields, carving a path that hums with the persistent, low-frequency music of moving water. The land here holds the weight of centuries, where the soil yields to the slow, deliberate turn of agricultural cycles. Headlam maintains a character defined by this proximity to the earth, where the horizon feels vast and the sky presses down with a heavy, honest clarity.
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Explore Headlam, County Durham, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.565531, -1.722298. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |