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Brockley Hill Underground station was a proposed London Underground station north of Edgware, north London. It was to be located near to Edgwarebury Park and north of the junction of the A41 road and A410 road. It was to be named after a local hill.

The station was the first of three planned on an extension of the Northern line's Edgware branch from Edgware station to the south up to Bushey Heath. The other two stations planned to the north were Elstree South and Bushey Heath. For Brockley Hill, other names were considered such as "Edgwarebury", "Edgebury", "North Edgware", "Canons" and "All Souls".

The extension was planned in 1935 as part of the Northern Heights project to electrify steam-operated London and North Eastern Railway branch lines and incorporate them into the Northern line. Construction began in June 1939 but was halted by the start of the Second World War. When work stopped, the route had been laid out, some earthworks constructed and a viaduct at the site of Brockley Hill station had been started. After the war, the introduction of Green Belt legislation preventing the residential development that the station would have served led to the cancellation of the project. The viaduct arches were partially demolished leaving the brickwork stumps that remain in a field today. (Full article...)