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BROOK STREET
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales...., by John Marius Wilson. circa 1866
BROOK-STREET, a hamlet in South Weald parish, Essex; on Watling-street and the Ingerburn river, near the Eastern Counties railway, 1 and ½ miles WSW of Brentwood. A leper's hospital, with chapel, was founded here, before the time of Edward I., by the Bruyns; and given, in the time of Edward VI., to Sir Anthony Brown and Richard Weston.
Transcribed by Noel Clark