P To East Dulwich EC KH Car and AM Bike Park RY Café AD E RO ’S PATHWAY ER AK START STR Entrance 09 Entrance

Rockery 01 Entrance Ornamental Toilets & Baby 08 Entrance Pond Garden Changing Nature Garden Skate Park Woodland Walk Japanese Japanese & Adventure Playground The Oval Garden Shelter 07 The Lake 02 Bowling Green Childrens Playground

P E C K 06 Grassland West H 03 American A Garden M Sexby Garden

R Y E Woodland

B 2 Sports pitches 1 9 05

Picnic Area & Arboretum

Entrance

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E S T 04 A L L

Grassland West R Entrance O A D

AD RO N TO LY Peckham Rye CO Park trail

Uncover Featuring ornamental gardens, flowing streams, woodland your Southwark and a lake, Green Flag Award winning Peckham Rye Park

Entrance and Common is an ideal location to relax and partake in a gentle stroll.

www.southwark.gov.uk/parks Peckham Rye Park trail

Stop 01 Stop 03 Stop 04 Stop 05 Stop 06 Stop 07 Stop 08 Trees Winter bird feed Two trees Stag beetles Ginkgo biloba The lake The rustic bridge Peckham Rye Park has a meadow Return to the main path Walk past the arboretum Turning to your right take a Walk to the lake. How Walk around the lake long and engaging history Walk to the winter bird and walk towards two until you reach a small short walk to the entrance many different water birds then veer left to the rustic and was recorded as being feed meadow. In summer trees. One is an English woodland. Listen out for of the Sexby Garden. The are there today? Look at bridge. When this was cultivated before the Norman this grassland meadow is oak, the other a common the different songs the birds garden was named after Lt. their webbed feet and built circa 1910 it had Conquest in the 11th Century. filled with the sound of ash tree with black pointed are singing and see how Col. Sexby Chief Officer of beaks. Can you see ducks an arch made from a The poet William Blake (1757- grasshoppers and the sight buds and smooth greyish many you can hear. Can Parks to the London County with spoon shaped beaks? whale rib as decoration. 1827) inspired by the trees on of butterflies. Look out bark on its young twigs. you see any stag beetles or Council until 1910. Walk What do you think they Underneath runs the River Peckham Common, wrote ‘A for British wildflowers like Is there a bees’ nest in their larvae? Rotting wood towards the bottom right eat? The floating islands Peck, one of London’s tree filled with angels, bright yarrow and knapweed, the ash tree? Honey bees provides an important hand corner of the garden give the water birds a place many underground rivers, angelic wings bespangling both flower through are important for plant home for Britain’s largest where you will find a very to nest. Female birds are enclosed in 1823, but still every bough with stars’. summer. Look closely pollination. Without insect, the stag beetle, old Ginkgo biloba tree often brown and grey so visible in the park. Enjoy the trees now as you at the knapweed leaves, them we would lose whose larvae feed on with its distinctive two part they can stay hidden when walk towards the entrance can you see patterns made approximately a third of decomposing wood over leaves. Have a walk around looking after eggs and to Peckham Rye Park. by leaf miners? In late the foods we eat each day. three to five years before this beautiful garden and chicks. Male birds are Stop 09 summer giant sunflowers emerging as adults for one if it’s spring or summer try more brightly coloured. Peckham Common loom over a sea of seed summer. South London smelling flowers. Do they all 02 Continue along the path, Stop heads in this meadow. parks and woods are a smell sweet? If it’s autumn Japanese garden past the nature garden on home to many of these wander among the seed your right and out into the Walk to the Japanese endangered beetles. heads and look closer at open grass of Peckham garden and listen to the their shapes. How do you Common where sheep once wind blowing through the think they spread? Do they grazed during world wars leaves or the trickle of water have winged seeds, feathery one and two. Enjoy the view in the stream. Look out for parachutes or tiny hooks? as you walk back past the the classic Japanese maple car park to the Café. tree with rich red foliage in autumn and pale leaves in spring and summer.

stop 03 stop 8 Black Knapweed Rustic Bridge

stop 01 William Blake [1757-1827]

stop 06 Ginkgo in the sun

stop 02 stop 05 stop 04 Japanese maple leaves Stag beetle larvae Ash tree bud

Written by www.gardensforlearning.com www.southwark.gov.uk/parks