Coordinates: 51°17′34″N 0°09′52″W / 51.2927°N 0.1645°W / 51.2927; -0.1645

Hooley is a small village in Surrey, England. It lies in a "pass" which is the lowest crossing point of the North Downs for some distance in either direction. Both the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the South Eastern Railway recognised this pass as the best route to Brighton and built rival railway lines through Hooley. Both lines go into tunnels just south of the village. Even before these, an extension of the Surrey Iron Railway came through this pass.

Hooley consists of houses on either side of the Brighton Road plus a few roads to the west of Brighton Road and is situated about half a mile south of the boundary of the London Borough of Croydon and about 2 miles south of Coulsdon.

It has two petrol stations, a few shops, a newsagent, a village hall, a social club and bar [1] and a café. The village now boasts a branch of Starbucks, which replaced the former Little Chef, on the A23 by Dean Lane.

It is quite distinct from Chipstead which is to the north west, except that, confusingly, St Margaret's the parish church of Chipstead, can be considered to be in Hooley (junction of Star Lane and Church Lane - 51°17′33″N 0°09′39″W / 51.2924°N 0.1608°W / 51.2924; -0.1608).

Terri Hooley, Godfather of the Belfast punk scene and the first person to win the Oh Yeah Legend Award in 2008. Hooley has received many awards throughout the world, his first was The Irish Music Industry Award 1994, Belfast caught up in 2008 when he received several awards in his native city. The founder of Good Vibrations record shop and label,responsible for bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts making their mark on the national music scene in Britain. After playing Teenage Kicks on BBC national radio John Peel then became a big supporter of the Good Vibrations record label. The label celebrated its thirty-year anniversary in April 2008. Terri's Good Vibes record shop at Winetavern St, Belfast was closed down in July 2011. A biopic based on his life, Good Vibrations: The Film, began filming in August 2011 and stars Richard Dormer as Hooley, as well as Dylan Moran and Jodie Whittaker. [[D. TERRI HOOLEY: One-eyed supremo of the great Good Vibrations record, Terri is responsible for the most worthwhile coming together of the different traditions in the North in the entire history of that province. Sure they are brought together under various guises "to get to know one another", but the don't make records like "Teenage Kicks", "Big Time" and "Right Way Home". In punk rock the colour of your religion had no meaning. And Terri did a lot to make it happen. None of the North's leading politicians have ever heard of him, because they are too ignorant. From the book, They Are Of Ireland by Declan Lynch