Brixton Road

The market arcades were declared listed buildings in 2009 following controversial proposals by Lambeth Council to replace them with a large US-style mall.

[1] Brixton Road dates back to the Roman era when it was part of the London to Brighton Way.

The River Effra used to be visible near Lambeth Town Hall, but is now underground, serving as a storm drain.

Fronting Brixton Road at the north end is the Neo-Byzantine style Christ Church, opened in 1902.

In the 1887 detective novel A Study in Scarlet, an abandoned house off the Brixton Road is the very first of the numerous crime scenes appearing in the Sherlock Holmes books and stories.