Brockley is an area of the London Borough of Lewisham in England. Situated about 5 miles (8 km) south east of London Charing Cross, it is covered by London postal district SE4. The name 'Brockley' is derived from either 'Broca's woodland clearing', or a wood where badgers are seen (broc is the Old English for badger). and lies on the old boundary between the Lewisham and Deptford parishes in the county of Kent, becoming a part of the county of London when the London County Council (LCC) was formed in 1889. In 1965 the LCC became the Greater London Council GLC and the old Metropolitan Borough of Deptford (including Brockley) was absorbed into the newly formed London Borough of Lewisham. Although mainly urban and residential in character, there are several open green spaces in the area, amongst them Blythe Hill, Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries which opened in 1858 and Hilly Fields. The latter was saved from development by the Commons Preservation Society and local groups in the 1880s and 1890s (including Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust). In 1896, after being bought with the proceeds of private donations and funding from the London County Council, the fields were transformed from old brickpits and ditches into a park. The park became a regular meeting place for the Suffragette movement between 1907 and 1914. The old West Kent Grammar School (then later renamed Brockley County Grammar School), now Prendergast School, a Grade II listed building, is situated at the top of the hill (with listed murals dating from the 1930s by Charles Mahoney, Evelyn Dunbar and other students of the Royal College of Art, considered some of the best examples in the country of the Neo-Romantic style. Close by, a stone circle was erected in 2000 as a millennium project by a group of local artists, which won a Civic Trust Award in 2004. The Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre has been running for over 30 years and is a much celebrated annual community event. At 160ft above sea level Hilly Fields has wide views from Shooters Hill to Crystal Palace and the North Downs in Kent. More on Brockley 

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