Church Lane Headley Surrey KT18 6LE

The Cock Inn at Headley is set in a lovely location close to Headley Heath. The The original part of The Cock Inn was built sometime around 1700-1750 and was originally the home for the stonemasons who built the beautiful Church in Headley.

One of our customers - of mature years - told us how she used to come and play with the daughter of one of the owners back in the early 1900's and could remember the Parrot who had pride of place in one corner of the fireplace, in what is now our Sports Bar. The Parrot was famous for its' vocabulary, which was somewhat 'naughty'!.

The attached barn still has it's original gabbled tracks, where the horse and carts came in, bringing in paying guests who stayed overnight on their way to the South Coast.

Headley is only a small village but it can trace its origins a long way back. It lay within the Copthorne hundred, an administrative division devised by the Saxons.

Headley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Hallega. It was held by Radulfus (Ralph) de Felgeres. Its domesday assets were: 2 hides; 6 ploughs, woodland worth 15 hogs. It rendered £5. Hallega means a clearing in the heather, which is appropriate considering the villages position on the acid top of the North Downs.