Doing some research and stumbled across this website with a map of London in 1864.
http://london1864.com/stanford66.htm
Here’s the pic of the page for Herne Hill in 1864:
Herne Hill 1864
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Here’s a better scan of the same map (without the added colour)
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dont quote me on this but that says Brockwell Hall.
Brockwell Park must have still been a private house and garden at that time.
Its interesting to see the the Half Moon Pub was there.
yep according to the wikisaurus, up until 1891, it was a private house and gardens until it was acquired by LCC.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090302214006/http://brockwellpark.com:80/BHall/BHall.htm
Brockwell Hall is a late Georgian Country House built between 1811-13 for John Blades, a wealthy Ludgate Hill glass maker, as the centre piece of his Park Estate. It replaced the old Brockwell Hall¹ sited down by Norwood Road. The perimeter of today’s Park reflects the boundary of the original estate.
On the death of John Blades in 1829 the Hall and Estate passed by marriage to the Blackburn family who lived there until 1888 when it was acquired by the London County Council for the people of Lambeth and London as a public park.
The purchase followed a campaign led by Thomas Lynn Bristowe, the first M.P. for Norwood, who was instrumental in raising funds from public, church, charity and private subscription. It was ironic that the man who did so much to secure the Park should expire of a heart attack on the steps of Brockwell Hall shortly after taking part in the opening ceremony on 6th June 1892
¹ - The foundations of old brockwell hall are visible when the grass dries out in the summer, near where the changing rooms used to be, near the lido.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.4516&lon=-0.1061&layers=163&b=1
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