Brookswood is a community (pop. approx. 13,200) in the Township of

Langley Langley may refer to: People * Langley (surname), a common English surname, including a list of notable people with the name * Dawn Langley Simmons (1922–2000), English author and biographer * Elizabeth Langley (born 1933), Canadian perfor ...

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, located on the west side of that municipality to the south of the

Nicomekl River The Nicomekl River springs from the ground in Langley, British Columbia and travels west through the city to Surrey's Crescent Beach, where it empties into Mud Bay, the northernmost section of the Boundary Bay of the Strait of Georgia. It has a ...

.BCGNIS entry "Brookswood (community)"
/ref> It is largely a residential area with several commercial areas, a Recreation Centre with a

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

area and

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...

rink. Next to the Recreation Centre is a BMX track originally built in 1977 and a

skate park A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scootering, wheelchairs, and aggressive inline skating. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, stairsets, qua ...

in 2001. The Brookswood disc golf course at Langley Passive Park is popular with disc golf enthusiasts.

Education in Brookswood

Brookswood Secondary School Brookswood Secondary School is located in the community of Brookswood in Langley, British Columbia. Among other resources, the school has an automechanics workshop, two gymnasiums, a theatre, a dark room, and a television studio. The school also ...

* Belmont Elementary School * Bradshaw Elementary School * Noel Booth Elementary School * Langley Fundamental Middle Secondary School * Alice Brown Elementary School

History

*Built at a cost of $1,750,000, the Langley

Civic Center A civic center or civic centre is a prominent land area within a community that is constructed to be its focal point or center. It usually contains one or more dominant public buildings, which may also include a government building. Recently, the ...

was officially opened on November 8, 1973. *In May 2005, the Langley Civic Center was renamed George Preston Recreation Center in honour of the man (former mayor and a local car salesman) who helped build it. *In early June 1977 a BMX race track named Kiwanis BMX was built adjacent to the Langley Civic Center (now named George Preston Recreation Center). The land at the time was leased to the Langley Riders Horse Association who were good friend's to Doreen Spinks who secured the land as a rental agreement and the first BMX track in Langley was built. On July 8' 1981, Town Council approved funding for the rebuilding of the track. It was then moved in the 1990s to its new location (some 30 yard's from the original track) and named Langley BMX where it still remains today. *In 2001 the Brookswood skateboard park was officially opened almost right beside it. *The Rec Centre is the current home of the Langley Rivermen

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hockey club, until the Chiefs' new arena in Willoughby is completed. Ground was broken recently on the new complex, which has an estimated completion date to coincide with the start of the 2008-09

season.

References

External links

Langley Civic Centre in BrookswoodBrookswood Library
Neighbourhoods in Langley, British Columbia Langley, British Columbia (district municipality) {{GVRD-geo-stub