DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KidKruger Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Well? Peckham was a village - it?s in the name > ! > > > Peckham was a Hamlet of the parish of Camberwell, > situated about a mile to Camberwell?s east on the > road to New Cross. > > The name means ?the place of the river Peck?, a > small steam that runs through the district. > > Peckham has never been an administrative district, > or a single ecclesiastical parish in its own > right; nevertheless, today it has a strong sense > of local identity. > > This may well be why Peckham was never classed as > a Village > > This has its roots in its 19th century development > from fields to suburbs, and crucially the > development of Rye Lane as one of the most > important shopping streets in south London. > > Foxy Peckham - situated between Rotherhithe in the north and Forest Hill in the south - was mentioned in the Domesday Book (1087) where it is called 'Pecheha'. The name is probably Anglo Saxon, meaning 'village among the hills'. The old English word for hill being 'peac' and 'ham' meaning village.