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Brockham
Brockham is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England. It is approximately east of Dorking and west of Reigate. The village lies south of Box Hill, with the River Mole flowing west through the village. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,868.〔(Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density ) United Kingdom Census 2011 ''Office for National Statistics'' Retrieved 21 November 2013〕 ==Name== Brockham, originally 'Broc-ham' is so called from the Anglo Saxon meaning 'river meadow by the brook' and is first recorded in 1241.〔Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names〕 It is often mistakenly believed that there is an association with badgers but this is a modern affectation from the 1950s when Cecily M Rutley created Brock the Badger in a children's story ().
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