Brockwell Park

Brockwell Park
A hut in Brockwell Park
Location	London
Coordinates	51°27′03″N 0°06′27″W / 51.45083°N 0.10750°W / 51.45083; -0.10750
Area	50.8 hectares (126 acres)
Open	All year

Brockwell Park is a 50.8 hectare^[1] (125.53 acres) park located between Brixton, Herne Hill and Tulse Hill, bordered by Brixton Water Lane, Norwood Road, Tulse Hill (Road), and Dulwich Road in South London.^[2]

The park commands views of the skyline of the city and Central London. At the top of the hill within the park stands Brockwell Hall.

The Brockwell Lido, a Grade II listed art deco building near the top of the park, is an open-air swimming pool popular with swimmers and bathers.^[3] Its attached café/restaurant is also popular. Other amenities in Brockwell Park include tennis courts, a bowling green, a BMX track and a miniature railway.^[4]

The park is home to the Lambeth Country Show, which usually takes place in July.^[5]^[6] An annual fireworks display also takes place around November 5.^[7]

History

Brockwell Hall

The Grade II* listed Brockwell Hall^[8] was built between 1811-1813 when the area was part of Surrey and was the country seat of glass merchant John Blades Esq. The land and house were acquired by the London County Council (LCC) in March 1891 and opened to the public on 2 June in the following summer, led by the local MP Thomas Lynn Bristowe. At the unveiling, Bristowe died of a heart attack on the steps of the hall.

In 1901 the LCC acquired a further 43 acres (17 ha) of land north of the original park.^[9] In the 1920s, there were 13 cricket pitches in the park, which attracted crowds of up to 1,500. Brockwell Park was home to the Galton Institute.

A bust of Thomas Bristowe was returned to the Park and unveiled on its 120th birthday, 2012.

The skyline from the highest point in Brockwell Park

Sports facilities

The refurbished 1930s Brockwell Lido has, as well as the swimming pool, other health and fitness facilities^[10]
An all weather pitch
A bowling green
A purpose built BMX track
Tennis courts
A Basketball/Volleyball court
Grass and gravel football pitches
Cricket nets
A free weekly 5 km Saturday Parkrun ^[11]
5 a side football on Sunday

Family facilities

The track of the miniature railway

A children's paddling pool
A dog free children's play area
A miniature railway
One O'Clock Club^[12]

Other features

A café, inside Brockwell Hall at the top of the hill
A walled garden with many flowers and herbs
Community greenhouses ^[13]
Three duck ponds

Brockwell Park in popular culture

The San Francisco band Red House Painters wrote a song about the park, named "Brockwell Park", for their 1995 album Ocean Beach.

Pop singer Adele told the Sun that she was not performing at music festivals in 2011, preferring "sitting in Brockwell Park with my friends, drinking cider."

Brockwell Park is the setting for the music video of 'Do Your Thing' by local band Basement Jaxx.

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References

London Borough of Lambeth

Districts	Brixton Clapham Clapham Park Crystal Palace Gipsy Hill Grange Mills Herne Hill Kennington Knight's Hill Lambeth Loughborough Junction Norbury Oval South Bank South Lambeth Stockwell Streatham Streatham Vale Tulse Hill Upper Norwood Vauxhall Waterloo West Dulwich West Norwood

Attractions	Ashby's Mill BFI Southbank Chocolate Museum Garden Museum Florence Nightingale Museum Imperial War Museum Lambeth Archives Lambeth Palace London County Hall London Eye Lower Marsh Market The Old Vic Oval Cricket Ground Ovalhouse Sea Life London Aquarium South Bank Southbank Centre Royal National Theatre BFI Southbank Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Purcell Room Hayward South London Theatre White Bear Theatre Young Vic

Bridges	Hungerford Lambeth Westminster Vauxhall Waterloo

Parks and open spaces	Archbishop's Park Brockwell Park Clapham Common Jubilee Gardens Kennington Park Larkhall Park Loughborough Junction Mostyn Gardens Myatt's Fields Park Norbury Park Norwood Park Pedlar's Park Ruskin Park Streatham Common Streatham Vale Park Vauxhall Park Vauxhall Spring Gardens

Constituencies	Streatham Vauxhall Dulwich and West Norwood

Tube, rail and riverboat stations	Brixton rail tube Clapham Common Clapham North Clapham High Street Gipsy Hill Herne Hill Lambeth North Loughborough Junction Norbury railway station Oval Stockwell Streatham Streatham Common Streatham Hill Tulse Hill Vauxhall Wandsworth Road Waterloo Waterloo East West Norwood

Other topics	Council Grade I and II* listed buildings People Public art Schools The Lambeth Walk

Parks and open spaces in London

Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's

Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead West Ham Wimbledon

Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent

Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Hackney Marsh Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Wormwood Scrubs

Marshes	Aveley Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham Tottenham Walthamstow Wennington

Woodland	Bostall Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Russia Dock Sydenham Hill

House gardens	Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Langtons Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park

Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre

Community gardens	Phoenix Garden Calthorpe Project

Parks and open spaces by London borough

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth City of Westminster

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