Description

Brockley, a parish in Somersetshire, near Nailsea station on the G.W.R., 8 miles SW of Bristol, which is the post town. Acreage, 1148 ; population of the civil parish, 152 ; of the ecclesiastical, 107. Brockley Hall is the seat of the Piggotts. Brockley Combe is a rocky wooded hollow, about 300 feet, flanked by hills, and was a favourite resort of the poet Coleridge. Lead ore is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, ?96 with residence. The church is good.