Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROCKLEY

BROCKLEY, a hamlet on the NW border of Kent; adjacent to the Croydon railway, 1 mile WSW of Lewisham. It has a post office‡ under Lewisham, London, S. E.; and had anciently a Premonstratensian monastery, founded about the end of the reign of Henry II.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kent AncC
Place: Brockley

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