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.

There are a several good cities in the area around Brixton like London.

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

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

Brixton is near some unmissable rivers and streams like River Thames at London,

Brixton's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre.

There are a number of towns near Brixton including Hendon, Greenwich, and Croydon.

Places near Brixton feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Cutty Sark.

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

Brixton History

There are some historic monuments around Brixton:

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