Pennsylvania Gazetteer
Brookwood Run is a physical feature (stream) in Montgomery County. The primary coordinates for Brookwood Run places it within the PA 19012 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Brookwood Run |
| Category: | Pennsylvania physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | It passes Front Street and Hilldale Road. |
| History: | This waterway historically had two branches. The northern branch rose in a spring-house on the property of “Heidelberg” on Ashbourne Road in Melrose Park and traveled southeastward. The southern branch rose on the estate “Brookwood” of L.H. Fisher, which became the Curtis Country Club and then the Melrose Country Club. The two streams met on the Fisher estate and fed a swimming pool, then continued as one stream under Tookany Creek Parkway to empty into the Tookany. |
| County: | Montgomery County |
| Latitude: | 40.0527 |
| Longitude: | -75.108006 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Brookwood Run: Brookwood Run.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Brookwood Run does not include property ownership information.
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