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, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, historic monuments and airports.

Brixton is near some unmissable cities like London,

The Tower of London is one of Brixton's best, nearby castles to visit in Brixton.

There are a several good museums in the Brixton area like The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

River Thames at London is one of Brixton's best, nearby rivers and streams to visit in Brixton.

Brixton has some unmissable shopping centres nearby like Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

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

Cutty Sark is a great place to visit close to Brixton if you like historic monuments.

There are a several good airports in the Brixton area like London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport.

Brixton History

There are some historic monuments around Brixton:

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