Place Name
From the local area of Peckham, which was first recorded as Pecheham in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means the village by a hill, referring to the old village which was to the west of today’s Telegraph Hill. By 1178 it was written as Pecham before taking the contemporary spelling of Peckham in 1241. Prior to its development, as shown on John Rocque’s 1741 map of Camberwell, this land formed part of the grounds of a property called Rainbow House which, surrounded by fields, was situated to the north of Southampton Way and mid-way between the rural villages of Camberwell and Peckham.
