Brookwood, Surrey

Brookwood
The Avenue leading from Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood is located in Surrey
Brookwood
Brookwood
Location within Surrey
Population2,565 (2011. Ward)[1]
OS grid referenceSU952570
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWoking
Postcode districtGU24
Dialling code01483
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
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51°18′14″N 0°38′12″W / 51.3038°N 0.6367°W / 51.3038; -0.6367

Brookwood is a village in Surrey, England, about 3+12 miles (5.6 km) west of Woking, with a mixture of semi-rural, woodland-set and archetypal suburban residential homes. It lies on the western border of the Woking Borough, with a small part of the village in Guildford Borough. As part of the 2016 boundary review, Brookwood became part of the Heathlands ward which comprises Brookwood, Bridley, Hook Heath, Mayford, Sutton Green and Barnsbury and Wych Hill.[2]

The village is known for the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery, also called the London Necropolis. The village also gave its name to the former Victorian Brookwood Hospital, once the leading mental institution in Surrey. Since its closure in 1994, it has been redeveloped as housing.

  1. ^ "Woking Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Heathlands". Woking. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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