![]() ![]() The manor was owned by King Henry I, who gave it to his son Robert, Earl of Gloucester. It had land for 1 plough, 2 acres (8,100 m 2) of meadow. It was held by the Bishop of Lisieux from Odo of Bayeux. ![]() Peckham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Pecheham. In 1965, the borough was abolished and the area then fell roughly within of the newly created London Borough of Southwark. Peckham came within the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell and County of London in 1889. It was described as being a hamlet on the road from Camberwell to Greenwich. Peckham Rye is from Old English rīth, stream.įollowing the Norman Conquest, the manor of Peckham was granted to Odo of Bayeux and held by the Bishop of Lixieux. ![]() The name of the river is a back-formation from the name of the village. The Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (1991, 1998) gives the origin as from the Old English * pēac and hām meaning ‘homestead by a peak or hill’. Archaeological evidence indicates earlier Roman occupation in the area, although the name of this settlement is lost. "Peckham" is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823. At the 2001 Census the Peckham ward had a population of 14,720. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Charing Cross. Peckham ( / ˈ p ɛ k əm/) is a district in southeast London, within the London Borough of Southwark. ![]()
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