Found this on the Peckham Society web site BURY BOUDICCA MYTH - Spring 2005 Noticeboards on Peckham Rye start the history of the common with "The first legend about Peckham Rye Common dates back to 60 AD when it is alleged that the Roman General Suetonius Paulinus defeated the British Queen Boadicea at Peckham Rye." There are enough myths of Peckham without Southwark Council perpetuating this myth. The noticeboards should be changed as soon as possible and include only accurate history of our common. In Boudicca: The Warrior Queen M. J. Trow (Sutton Publishing, 2003) states: "We do not know where the battlefield was. Given the details of the earlier campaign when Boudicca?s army had destroyed Camulodunum (today?s Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans), Roman expert Malcolm Todd surmises a site in Hertfordshire, not far north of the last place of attack. Folklore places it much nearer to London, perhaps close to the present King?s Cross station. Most experts today, however, favour Mancetter, along Watling Street, the Roman road in Warwickshire." The book makes no mention of Peckham Rye. In the spring 2000 issue of our magazine (no. 79) we stated: "No one knows where the final confrontation between Boadicea and Suetonius took place. A site in what is now Leicestershire, near Mancetter, to the south-east of Atherstone and close to the line of Watling Street, has been suggested by Graham Webster, the leading authority on the revolt, who wrote Boudica (B.T. Batsford, 1993).?