# Brook, Surrey

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**Brook** is a [hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)) in the civil parish of Witley and Milford, in the [Waverley](/source/Waverley,_Surrey) district, in south-west [Surrey](/source/Surrey), England. It is 1.2 miles (2 km) west of [Wormley](/source/Wormley,_Surrey), beyond [Sandhills](/source/Sandhills,_Surrey) with which it avoids being [contiguous](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contiguous) due to a narrow, partly woodland [buffer](/source/Buffer_zone). Brook straddles the [A286](/source/A286_road_(Great_Britain)) single carriageway road between [Milford](/source/Milford,_Surrey) and [Haslemere](/source/Haslemere).

On slightly lower slopes of the [Greensand Ridge](/source/Greensand_Ridge) than to the south, Brook is almost wholly within the Surrey Hills [area of outstanding natural beauty](/source/Area_of_outstanding_natural_beauty).

## Amenities

Pirrie Hall, a community hall, dates from May 1923. It was built and donated by [Lord Pirrie](/source/Baron_Pirrie) [K.P.](/source/King's_Proctor) "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.[2]

The hamlet's [pub](/source/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.[3]

Brook was the origin of the Woodworm cricket bat used by [Andrew Flintoff](/source/Andrew_Flintoff) and [Kevin Pietersen](/source/Kevin_Pietersen) in the 2005 Ashes winning series.[4] The club is among multiple claimants to have hosted the first person to bowl overarm.[5]

## Notable people

Brook was home to [Emily Williamson](/source/Emily_Williamson), co-founder of the [RSPB](/source/RSPB), from 1912 to 1931, as well as [Asif Zardari](/source/Asif_Zardari), and his wife the former Pakistan Premier [Benazir Bhutto](/source/Benazir_Bhutto), who bought the Rockwood Estate in 1995.[6] Husband and wife singers [Philip Langridge](/source/Philip_Langridge) and [Ann Murray](/source/Ann_Murray) lived in Brook.[7]

## References

1. ["Location of Godalming and Ash"](https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4064/location). *parliament.uk*. July 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2025.

1. ["The Pirrie Hall"](http://www.pirriehall.co.uk/news.html). Retrieved 21 August 2021.

1. ["I'Anson Cup Competitions: Division 1 2018"](http://ia.play-cricket.com/website/websites/view_division?id=77336). Retrieved 21 August 2021.

1. Matthew Beard (29 April 2013). ["For fans batty about Freddie, only Woodworm is good enough"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/for-fans-batty-about-freddie-only-woodworm-is-good-enough-310579.html). *The Independent*. Retrieved 21 August 2021.

1. Christopher Hope (31 August 2005). ["Flintoff helps cricket bat firm into the record books"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2921382/Flintoff-helps-cricket-bat-firm-into-the-record-books.html). *The Daily Telegraph*. Retrieved 21 August 2021.

1. ["Inside Benazir Bhutto's £10 million country retreat"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140621133125/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertynews/10915100/Inside-Benazir-Bhuttos-10-million-country-retreat.html). *Daily Telegraph*. 20 June 2014. Archived from [the original](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertynews/10915100/Inside-Benazir-Bhuttos-10-million-country-retreat.html) on 21 June 2014.

1. Hall, George. ["Bewitched"](https://www.operanews.com/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=3281&issueID=155&archive=true). Opera News. Retrieved 27 April 2022.

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