Peckham Rye is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area.
Atwell Road, SE15 Atwell Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Bellenden Road, SE15 Bellenden Road was originally Victoria Road and was renamed Bellenden Road in 1873. Cerise Road, SE15 Cerise Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Choumert Road, SE15 Choumert Road is named after George Choumert (died 1831) a local landowner of French extraction. Elm Grove, SE15 Elm Grove is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Godman Road, SE15 Godman Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Heaton Road, SE15 Heaton Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Lyndhurst Square, SE15 John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, lawyer and politician, was three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Melon Road, SE15 Melon Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Nigel Road, SE15 Nigel Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Parkstone Road, SE15 Parkstone Road largely disappeared from the map of London during post-war redevelopment. Rye Lane, SE15 Rye Lane runs from Peckham High Street at the north, down to the corner of Copeland Road where The Nags Head sits at the south. Talfourd Road, SE15 Talfourd Road was developed by the British Land Company between 1857 and 1862. The Market, SE15 The Market is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Wood Dene, SE15 Wood Dene is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area. Woods Road, SE15 Woods Road is one of the streets of London in the SE15 postal area.
Peckham Rye is Cockney rhyming slang for tie (necktie).Peckham Rye, with a station on
Rye Lane, lies in the centre of the shopping district of Peckham in South London.
Peckham Rye itself is an open space in the London Borough of Southwark. The roughly triangular open space with Peckham Rye Common to the north and Peckham Rye Park to the south. The road called Peckham Rye forms the western and eastern perimeter of the open space.
Peckham Rye railway station opened on 1 December 1865 for LC&DR trains and on 13 August 1866 for LB&SCR trains. It was designed by Charles Henry Driver, the architect of Abbey Mills and Crossness pumping stations, who also designed the grade II listed Denmark Hill and Battersea Park stations between here and Victoria.
It was on the Rye in the 1760s that the artist William Blake claimed to have seen visions, including one of
a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.
During World War II, part of the Common became a Prisoner of War camp for Italian prisoners of war.
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