In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brockley like this:
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.
Brockley through time
Brockley is now part of Lewisham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Lewisham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Brockley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Brockley, in Lewisham and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20690
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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