Brockham Village Green
Today was a cycle through the beautiful West Sussex and Surrey countryside on a circular route to reach the pretty village of Brockham where I stopped for lunch on the green...
...with a view across the village green to the North Downs beyond,,,
...with my back to the village church with its stone steeple and whilst it looks old, it is only Victorian as Brockham only became its own parish in 1842 and the new church was only consecrated in 1847...
In the church yard is the village war memorial to those that fell in both World Wars. However what is unusual about the churchyard is whilst it has a remembrance garden and plaques to remember people, there are no gravestones in the church yard. The Brockham locals had used the church in the nearby village of Leigh to be baptised and married and they chose that church for their graves.
On the green is the old village pump, to the right of the picture with a porch over it to protect users from the rain, provided by Henry \thomas Hope, a local MP and benefactor of the area who also provided the clock for the church.
There are many other interesting buildings overlooking the village green...
,,,such as one of the two village stores....
...one of two pubs,,,
,,,an old building...
...another old building...
...the other pub, The Inn on the Green which also overlooks the green...
...the Old Inn Lodge...
'''and outside one of the shops, a telephone box that has been re-used as a store for a defibrillator for the village...
.. and as I cycled through Leigh where Brockham parishioners used to worship, there was another former telephone box and whilst many have been transformed into defibrillator stores or mini libraries, this one was a History Box with details of the history of the village and church.
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