Wedding Photographer Brookfield Park — Surrey Hills Barn Venue and the North Downs Landscape
Brookfield Park is a Surrey Hills barn and farm wedding venue set within the North Downs AONB between Reigate and Dorking — a venue whose working farm character, converted hay barn ceremony space and extensive natural grounds in the Surrey Hills provide a wedding photography environment of considerable rural authenticity at close proximity to London. For Brookfield Park wedding photography, the contrast between the warm-toned brick and timber barn interiors and the open North Downs landscape beyond provides a photographic richness that few single venues can offer: from the dramatic available light within the converted barn to the wide Surrey skies above the chalk escarpment, every element of the day has a strong visual character.
The Barn, the Farm Courtyard and the Surrey Hills
The converted hay barn at Brookfield Park — with its exposed oak frame, the high timber roof and the working farm’s stone courtyard outside — provides a warm and architecturally distinctive ceremony and reception space whose natural materials and honest agricultural character suit both contemporary minimalist styling and rustic floral decoration equally well. The farm courtyard, with its flint and brick walls and the surrounding outbuildings, provides a sheltered outdoor ceremony or drinks-reception space of genuine rural character. The surrounding North Downs AONB landscape — the chalk escarpment above, the sunken lanes between the farms and the ancient hedgerow oaks in the paddocks — extends portrait possibilities well beyond the immediate farmyard for couples who want the full Surrey Hills environment on their wedding day.
The North Downs Way, Box Hill and the Wider Surrey Landscape
The North Downs Way footpath passes within minutes of Brookfield Park and provides access to the chalk escarpment above the venue at Box Hill — designated a National Trust property, the most visited natural attraction in Surrey and a vantage point from which both the Surrey Hills and, in clear conditions, the South Downs above Brighton are visible. The ancient yew woodland on the chalk scarp above Westhumble, the stepping stones across the River Mole and the viewpoint above Dorking town are all accessible as portrait locations from Brookfield Park within a twenty-minute driving radius. Reigate Priory, Polesden Lacey (National Trust Edwardian house) and the chalk pits of the Tillingbourne valley all extend the available portrait landscape for any Brookfield Park wedding day.