Once popular for its cricket matches – WG Grace is said to have played there[6] – it is a focal point of a Guy Fawkes Night bonfire every year on the closest Saturday to 5 November.

[7] Around 20,000 people gather round the village green, over 4 tonnes of fireworks typically light up the sky and the event is widely regarded by local residents as the highlight of the Mole Valley's calendar.

[8] There is also an annual Victorian fair weekend in mid-July, with a village picnic and live music performances on the Saturday evening, also showcasing local talent.

[9] From 1945, Beecham Research Laboratories Ltd (which merged with SmithKline in 1989, then with Glaxo, to become GlaxoSmithKline in 2000) operated from Brockham Park at the southern end of the village.

In 1959, Beecham marketed pheneticillin, followed shortly by methicillin (or meticillin), which is active against the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus ('golden staph').

[12] In August 2018, retrospective planning permission was granted by Surrey County Council for a secondary oil wellbore in Brockham.

The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%.