The Peckham Ghost Trail

This is not actually the Peckham Ghost

Sunday 30 October
2.30-5pm
This event has sold out. We are very sorry and we hope to re-host it at a later date.
Meet at Honor Oak Station, 82 Honor Oak Park, Honor Oak Park SE23 1EB

Follow in the footsteps of the Peckham Ghost, a mysterious masked figure intent on terrifying Victorian south London in strange and unusual ways.

On the way from Honor Oak hear of the ghosts and legends of Peckham, One Tree Hill, Nunhead Green reservoirs and the undead bank clerk of Nunhead Cemetery.

Meet your guide at Honor Oak Station at 2.30pm, this Halloween walk ends at Nunhead Green at approximately 5pm.

Your guide is London Fortean Society host Scott Wood. Scott is the host of the London Fortean Society, a regular writer for Londonist and the author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse of the Tube.

This walk is just over 2 hours long with regular breaks, some steep climbs and some stony ground.

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