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The Loughborough Estate in the east of the area. Brixton is home to several particularly large housing estates: Stockwell Park Estate off Stockwell and Brixton Roads respectively; Myatt's Fields South and North off Vassall Road; Angell Town off Brixton Road on the boundary with Camberwell; Cowley on Cowley and Vassall Roads, Loughborough in the ...
The image of the Brixton Central Business District is still perceived as negative, the area's disheveled High Street stores are in need of business investors and the parking remains scarce. However, with its close proximity to two prominent universities, population and low property and rental prices, investment in the area may prove to be ...
Brixton Market in Electric Avenue, 2007. Electric Avenue is a street in Brixton, London built in 1888. [1] It was the first market street to be lit by electric lights. [2] [3] Today, Electric Avenue contains national retail chains (Boots, Greggs, and Iceland), as well as various local food and housewares retailers.
Brixton Road, looking north. Brixton Road is a road in the London Borough of Lambeth (south London, England), leading from the Oval at Kennington to Brixton, where it forms the high street and then forks into Effra Road and Brixton Hill at St Matthew's church at the junction with Acre Lane and Coldharbour Lane.
[3]: 107 It continues north briefly as Church Street before turning left into Queens Road before turning right again and intersecting and co-signing briefly with the M10 Bartlett Road. [3]: 107 Resuming a northward direction as Brixton Road, it passes the Brixton Cemetery to its east before becoming Symons Road.
East Brixton railway station was a railway station in Brixton, south London. It was opened as Loughborough Park by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1866. Regular passenger service was the South London line from London Victoria to London Bridge terminal stations in central London.
Map of rail & tube lines passing through Brixton, showing the location of East Brixton. The station is in Brixton Road and is about 100 m [21] from Brixton railway station [9] (on the London Victoria to Orpington line, operated by South Eastern).
Coldharbour Lane seen from Acre Lane.. Coldharbour Lane is a road in south London, England, that leads south-westwards from Camberwell to Brixton.The road is over 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a mixture of residential, business and retail buildings – the stretch of Coldharbour Lane near Brixton Market contains shops, bars and restaurants.