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Detailed map of Peckham; London sheet 103. Introduction by W W Marshall. The maps each cover the same area, stretching from Denmark Hill station eastward to Queen's Road station and Asylum Road; and from Rosemary Road southward to Nunhead Green. Peckham Road and High Street runs west-east across the map, with tramway; further south the railways run across, with Peckham Rye station in the lower centre of the map. Other features of these very busy maps include Peckham House lunatic asylum, Camberwell Workhouse, Brunswick Square, Eagle Mill, Rye Lane, tramways and tram depot, railways incl engine sheds, St Giles church, Brunswick Square, Camberwell Town Hall, Surrey Canal with Peckham Wharf, north end of Peckham Rye Common. The following Wards are named on the Town Hall, St Giles, Lyndhurst, Goldsmith, Rye Lane, St Mary's and Nunhead Wards (though some extend onto adjacent maps). The map is largely part of Camberwell Borough.