Facilities
Adventure Playground: The adventure playground is run by the children's services department. The play area is currently open on Saturdays between 11.00 am and 5.00 pm.
Skate Park: The skate area has recently been upgraded by the installation of a metal mini ramp.
Outdoor Gym: This new state of the art equipment uses your body weight to create resistance so is available to all. This new equipment is located just off the lake by the skate park.
Bowling Green & Pavilion: Open from the 4th July every Saturday and Sunday between 10am - 5pm. Prices are £3 per hour and £2 for seniors. No booking and no experience required. Café on the Rye are providing refreshments.
Football Pitches: Pitches and changing rooms can be booked via the Southwark council booking office on 020 7525 1052. Senior pitches cost £49.00, Junior pitches cost £25.00. Small sided pitches for young players cost £19.00.
Powerpramming: This is great exercise for new mums. Powerprammers meet by the Café every Monday at 12:30 – Contact Liz Stuart on 07976 778413 - www.powerpramming.co.uk.
The One O’Clock Club: This free service operates Monday to Friday 12:30pm - 4:00pm throughout the year. Children can enjoy a range of activities from arts and crafts, cooking, sports, games and story telling. For more details, contact the One O’Clock club on 0208 693 0481. Note: parents/carers need to stay with their children at all times.
Community Wildlife Garden: A community wildlife garden is planned for the fenced in depot, the first step is to improve the soil quality and after this Southwark council will work with the local community to create features within the garden.
Old Paddling Pool: This site has been awarded £125K for improvement works. Ideas include a natural play area, which could feature elements of water play. The old pool has recently been converted to wild meadow and new locations are being reviewed for the new play area.
Playgrounds: There is a playground suitable for younger children located near the adventure playground. There is another play area ideal for toddlers located next to the One O’clock club.
Picnic Area: There is a shady, fenced off picnic area located close to the rose garden and the bowls pavilion.
Formal Gardens: Sexby Gardens is a lovely formal garden, complete with rose pergolas and quiet seating areas whilst the Japanese Garden and Shelter has a more natural feel.
Ponds: There are two ponds in the park, a large one located close to the playground and smaller one located in the Japanese Garden.
Toilets: Disabled toilets and baby changing facilities are available in the cafe or in the public toilet block located next to the car park.
Did you know?
Peckham was mentioned in the Doomsday Book (1087) where it is called Pecheha='village among the hills' (Anglo Saxon).
During the reign of Henry 1, Peckham belonged to the King who gave it to his illegitimate son, Robert the Earl of Gloucester. Peckham was a farming village where the land was used for growing crops and fruit and by the 18 century it was famous for its melons, figs and grapes.
In 1767 - William Blake visited Peckham Rye and had a vision of angels in an oak tree. The Angel Oak, as it was later called is long gone.
The park's original layout was opened to the pubic in 1894, however a substantial portion remained part of Home stall Farm until 1908.
During the Second World War, temporary huts were erected to detain Italian prisoners of war (one still remains, next to the café)
In 2004 The Friends of Peckham Park secured Heritage Lottery Funding to restore the Park to its former glory and the work was completed in 2005.
In 2007 the Café opened!
