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← Back to SaunasWhy this one made the list
Same operator, Peckham yard site — local crowd, off-peak regulars cluster by session (Tues/Thurs evenings); ice barrel + outdoor showers force conversation. Local-resident concessions.
Practical
- Address
- Glengall Wharf Garden, 64 Glengall Road, Peckham, London, SE15 6NF
- Postcode
- SE15 6NF
- Cost
- £7 per hour
- Setting
- Outdoor
- First visit
- Read the First Time? page before booking. Bring swimwear, two towels and flip-flops; concession rates from £5.
- Getting started
- Walk-in welcome
- Booking
- Walk-in
- Website
- Community Sauna Baths — Peckham
- @communitysaunabaths
What you'd want to know
Compact off-grid sauna setup inside Glengall Wharf Garden, a community garden on the canal-side at Old Kent Road end of Peckham. Two small wood-fired cedar saunas tucked among raised beds and fruit trees; a single outdoor shower beside them.
No cold plunge — the cool-down is the shower and the garden's open-air paths. Timber benches along the fence, gravel underfoot, a small log store.
Wooden gate from the canal towpath; the garden's polytunnel and beehives sit nearby. Operates Fridays–Sundays in daylight hours, the simplest of the Community Sauna Baths sites.
Brickwall and wildflowers all around.
Overheard from locals
- the cool-down is the cold shower and walking the garden paths — no plunge pool here. think of it as a slower rhythm than the other sites.
- weekend daylight only, so it's a saturday morning kind of place. go before the garden volunteers turn up if you want it quiet.
- bring sliders. you'll be walking from sauna to shower across gravel and past the raised beds.
- the same handful of locals turn up by session — tuesday evening, thursday evening. you'll start clocking the same faces.
- small enough that the staff actually walk you in. don't be shy about asking how long to stay on round one.