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 Tower of London is a great place to visit close to Brixton if you like castles.

Don't miss The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark's museums if visiting the area around Brixton.

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

Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre are great places to visit near Brixton if you like shopping centres.

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

Don't miss Cutty Sark's historic monuments if visiting the area around Brixton.

London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport are great places to visit near Brixton if you like airports.

Brixton History

There are some historic monuments around Brixton:

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