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PECKHAM

Volume 17 · 53 words · 1860 Edition

a large suburban hamlet of London, in the county of Surrey, 4 miles S.S.E. of the metropolis, consists of a long line of handsome edifices. Among its numerous churches belonging to different sects there are some handsome buildings. It has several schools, a lunatic asylum, and a large silk factory. Pop. (1851) 19,444.