Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brockley

Brockley.-- par., E. Somerset, 8 miles SW. of Bristol, 692 ac., pop. 109; contains Brockley Court. Brockley Combe, a rocky, wooded dell, surrounded by hills, was a favourite resort of Coleridge.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brockley CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Brockley

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