Peckham Rye
	The Rye was common ground and recreation space in Camberwell parish. By the end of the nineteenth century, Peckham Rye Park comprised the Rye proper, 64 acres; Goose Green, over 6 acres; and Nunhead Green, 1–2 acres. The “park” was formed only in the 1850s, whereas, in Ruskin’s youth, the Rye was known as the “green,” forming part of manors extending back to medieval times. Some of those buildings and other memorials remained, and the area would still have been surrounded by old farms (Sexby, Municipal Parks 176–89).
	Peckham fair was an ancient institution, held annually on the green; however, throughout Ruskin’s youth, especially in 1827, attempts were made to abolish “this concentrated essence of vice, folly, and buffoonery” with its “horde of nomadic thieves” and “coarse men and lewd women” who “contaminate[d] the youth of the district and annoy[ed] the more staid and respectable citizens.” Success in suppressing the fair came only in the mid-1850s, however (Blanch, Parish of Camerwell 312–14).