moving to the area (sort of)

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i'm interested in buying a property on waveney avenue in nunhead (just the other side of Peckham Rye Common)and am hoping for a bit of advice on the street/area. i know it's not actually in east dulwich but you all seem so knowlegable about the area (particularly the pubs)i thought you might be able to help.

[PeckhamRose]

I live round the corner.

It's absolutely lovely here.

I have lived here 24 years and to quote a certain fictional character "It just keeps getting better and better."

You are in the middle of Peckham Rye Park - (new cafe opening soon) with The Clockhouse pub on the other side (fabulous pub and friendly landlord in Laurence) - and the very beautiful overgrown Nunhead Cemetery which stuns the friends and visitors I may have stay over, when I haul them round for a walk on a Sunday morning. Meanwhile, in Nunhead you have some of the sweetest individual shops - from Wendy and Sonia in AG Flowers, Sopers the fish shop, the lovely butchers and Ayres the bakers, and so on, and all the lovely pubs along there too. And the not so lovely pubs. Nunhead Surgery at 58 Nunhead Grove has some of the friendliest doctors I have known (I have medical conditions so see them more than the average person maybe). I am sure others can add more, but you got me in a quiet moment and I never take for granted how lucky I am in life in even the little things. Hope that's a good start!

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I live one street away and love it. Waveney is very quiet but there are loads of good pubs within stumbling distance.

Within very easy striking range are not just the Clockhouse but Page 2 (2 mins walk) which is having a bit of a revamp and great things are expected (there was a thread on here recently about it). The Nuns Head and the Rye are both a short stroll away and do good food as well as decent beer and wine. About ten minutes walk across the common are the Herne and the FHT plus the Gowlett tucked away off East Dulwich road. And its 15 mins to the bright lights of Lordship Lane. And having previously lived in East Dulwich, I would say the transport is better as there is easy access to two stations which service more than one line plus the useful 12 and 63 buses (which stop diagonally across the common from Waveney about 5 mins walk).