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Brook is a
hamlet in the civil parish of Witley and Milford, in the
Waverley district, in south-west
Surrey
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, England. It is west of
Wormley, beyond
Sandhills with which it avoids being
contiguous due to a narrow, partly woodland
buffer. Brook straddles the
A286 single carriageway road between
Milford and
Haslemere
The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south-west Surrey, England, around south-west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill (Hindhead, Surrey), Beacon Hill, they comprise ...
.
On slightly lower slopes of the
Greensand Ridge than to the south, Brook is almost wholly within the Surrey Hills
area of outstanding natural beauty.
Amenities
Pirrie Hall, a community hall, dates from May 1923. It was built and donated by
Lord Pirrie K.P. "for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the hamlets of Brook, Sandhills and adjoining district". The maintenance of the hall is financed in part by a community association-organised annual May Bank Holiday Fete.
The hamlet's
pub is the ''Dog and Pheasant''.
Cricket club
Brook Cricket Club's ground adjoins Pirrie Hall. After leaving the Surrey Championship Cricket league in 2012, the club re-structured over the winter of 2012–13 and re-entered league cricket in the I'Anson Cricket league and formed a youth section. By 2018 the club's first eleven were in I'Anson Division 1 but were promptly relegated for 2019.
Brook was the origin of the Woodworm cricket bat used by
Andrew Flintoff and
Kevin Pietersen in the 2005 Ashes winning series. The club is among multiple claimants to have hosted the first person to bowl overarm.
Notable people
Brook was home to
Emily Williamson, co-founder of the
RSPB, from 1912 to 1931, as well as
Asif Zardari, and his wife the former Pakistan Premier
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...
, who bought the Rockwood Estate in 1995. Husband and wife singers
Philip Langridge and
Ann Murray lived in Brook.
References
External links
{{Waverley
Hamlets in Surrey
Borough of Waverley