Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Brook Green like this:

BROOK-GREEN, a village in Fulham parish, Middlesex; adjacent to the West London railway and to the north side of Hammersmith. It has a post office‡ under Hammersmith, London, W., a Roman Catholic chapel, and Islas's alms-houses.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Brook Green by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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