Brixton is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Brixton postcode: SW2 1SS

Retail in Brixton

There are great places to visit near Brixton including some great cities, castles, museums, historic buildings, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, country parks, nature reserves, historic monuments, airports and bluebell woods.

Cities to visit near Brixton include London.

The area close to Brixton boasts some of the best castles including The Tower of London.

The area around Brixton features a number of interesting museums including The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

Historic Buildings to visit near Brixton include The Tower of London, Millenium Bridge, Sutton House and Breaker's Yard, and Osterley Park and House.

There are a several good rivers and streams in the area around Brixton like River Thames at London.

Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre are some of Brixton best shopping centres to visit near Brixton.

Don't miss Hendon, Greenwich, Croydon, Chislehurst, Enfield, and Isleworth's towns if visiting the area around Brixton.

There are a number of country parks near Brixton including Fryent Country Park, South Norwood Country Park, Morden Hall Park, Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Scadbury Estate Country Park, Stanmore Country Park, and Whitewebbs Country Park.

Don't miss Morden Hall Park's nature reserves if visiting the area around Brixton.

Cutty Sark is one of Brixton's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Brixton.

Brixton has some unmissable airports nearby like London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Places near Brixton feature a number of interesting bluebell woods including Stanmore Country Park.

Brixton History

There are some historic monuments around Brixton:

• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• Vintners' Hall
• Kensington Palace
• Dovecote, Beddington Park
• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay House
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
• A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
• Monument
• Milestone in Sutton High Street
• Parnell Road Bridge
• Smiths' Wharf
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• Apothecaries' Hall
• Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnel
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• Elmers End moated site, South Norwood
• Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane
• London Wall: section of Roman wall within the London Wall underground car park, 25m north of Austral House and 55m north west of Coleman Street
• Fulham Palace moated site
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Site of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• The Globe Theatre
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Dyers' Hall
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• Milestone outside No. 135 Cheam Road, Cheam
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• Tower of London
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• Stationers' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street
• Queenhithe dock
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• The Jewel Tower
• Fishmongers' Hall
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• Roman Bath House, Shadwell
• Watermen's Hall
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• The Curtain Playhouse
• Tower Hill West
• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• Innholders' Hall
• Morden Park Mound
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• The Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Merton, 271m ENE of Abbey Wall Works
• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• The Theatre Playhouse
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Skinners' Hall
• St John the Baptist's Church gateway, Howley Road
• Roman villa E of Beddington Park
• Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys Wharf
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell