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Peckham

Peckham is a district in south-east London, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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The place

Peckham is a district in south-east London, within the London Borough of Southwark. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Charing Cross. The area is home to about 29,300 residents.

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Getting to Peckham

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 28 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 37 km · London Luton (LTN), 50 km
  • Luton, Luton → Peckham
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £5–7
  • London, Essex → Peckham
    5 km · quickest by road, 30 min · £0.5–1
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Peckham
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Peckham

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Peckham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
  • Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.

From Wikivoyage: London/Greenwich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    123 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    566 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    602 km

If you know how people move in Peckham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Peckham

Peckham is 6 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.