Brockley Historical Walk led by Gillian Heywood MBE

Meet outside Pistachio’s Hilly Fields Cafe. Walk through Brockley Conservation Area and several mews, ending at the Wickham Arms, SE4 1TF

Brockley Conservation Area is an unusually well preserved enclave of architectural and environmental history that has survived into the 21st century almost intact. By the 1870s ‘Upper Brockley’ was laid out with wide streets and large Italianate villas backed by free-access mews service lanes. The unique environment was created to respond to the alignment of former country lanes, field patterns, footpaths and streams.

Gillian Heywood received her MBE for Service to our Community. She has been a particularly tireless and formidably well-informed defender and campaigner.