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BROOK-STREET, a hamlet in South Weald parish, Essex; on Watling-street and the Ingerburn river, near the Eastern Counties railway, 1½ mile WSW of Brentwood. A leper's hospital, with chapel, was founded here, before the time of Edward I., by the Bruyns.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | South Weald Parish Essex Ancient County |
| Place: | Brook Street |
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