Peckham has been south London's talking point for fifteen years, and unlike most London neighbourhoods that get that treatment, it's held on to what made it interesting. The independent restaurant scene on Bellenden Road is serious. The Peckham library is architectural. The levels in the old car park are genuinely creative rather than cosmetically so.
Nunhead Cemetery is the walk's destination and the walk's surprise. One of the seven great Victorian cemeteries, it's maintained just enough to be accessible but wild enough that mature trees have split the chapel and grown through its windows. On a weekday morning in October it's one of the most atmospheric places in London.
