PECKHAM-WEST, (Kent) or PECKHAM-LITTLE, 3 m. S. W from West-Malling. It bel. in the time of the Saxons to Christchurch,
Canterbury. A fr. sc. was founded and endowed here in 1408, by Mr. Justice Culpeper, for the Kts. Templars; but it was
afterwards taken from them, and given to those of St. John of Jerusalem.