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Telegraph Avenue, NW7

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Place Name Part of Fairview New Homes Edition Development, which has been built on the former British Newspaper Library site in…

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Peckham Grove, SE15

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Place Name From the local area of Peckham, which was first recorded as Pecheham in the Domesday Book of 1086…

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Peckham High Street, SE15

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Place Name The high or principal street of Peckham, the name was first recorded as Pecheham in the Domesday Book…

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Peckham Park Road, SE15

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Place Name A well-established route, this features though is unnamed on John Rocque’s 1741 map of Camberwell. The name is…

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Peckham Hill Street, SE15

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Place Name A reference to both the locality of Peckham and the area’s 18thCentury landowner, Mrs Martha Hill. The name Peckham…

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Peckham Rye, SE15, SE22

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Place Name Peckham Rye, which literally means Peckham by a stream, was recorded as its own distinct district in 1512.…

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Peckham Road, SE5, SE15

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Place Name Directional, in the early 19thCentury this already well-established route between Camberwell and New Cross, as seen on John…

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Paulet Road, SE5

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Place Name Sir William Paulet (about 1483/1485 – March 10, 1572), 1st Marquess of Winchester, styled Lord St John Basing and…

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Havil Street, SE5

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Place Name A well-established route, first called Workhouse Lane on account of the workhouse which opened here in 1818, it…

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Guardian Avenue, NW7

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