Headley is the oldest of three villages in the south of England of that name and has gone through a number of name spellings, but was first noted (no households were recorded) in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the ancient hundred of Neatham, at which time Eustace II, Count of Boulogne was tenant-in-chief and Lord.

[5] In the late 1800s, the Anglican parish of Headley, in the hundred of Alton, covered some 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), of which about half was waste land, but which was in the process of being reclaimed.

Its predecessor of the same name is believed to have been on the other side of the road when William Cobbett visited Headley in 1822 as part of his Rural Rides.

[8] Headley Theatre Club was founded in 1952, building on the success of a pageant held to celebrate the Festival of Britain the previous year.

It was felt that an organisation should be formed in the Village to encourage such enthusiasm and talent on a more permanent basis.

[15] Nikolaus Pevsner noted that the oblong piece of 13th century stained glass of a female saint being decapitated was ”exquisite”.