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A well-established route, this features though is unnamed on John Rocque’s 1741 map of Camberwell. The name is both a reference to the local area of Peckham, and the former parkland, known as Peckham Park, which surrounded the ancient manor of Peckham and originally extended across the line of this street. The name Peckham was first written down as Pecheham in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means the village by a hill, referring to the old village to the west of today’s Telegraph Hill. By 1178 it was written as Pecham before taking the contemporary spelling of Peckham in 1241. Known as Park Road and Upper Park Road until 1870 when the two were amalgamated to form Peckham Park Road.
