The phrase "a peripheral place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location that is not central or is on the outskirts of a main area, often implying it is less important or less frequented.
Example: "The conference was held in a peripheral place, far from the bustling city center, making it difficult for attendees to reach."
Alternatives: "a remote location" or "an outlying area".
Sam's dating life ebbs and flows, but never takes up more than a peripheral place in her life.
Lagging behind Milan and Turin economically, Rome has maintained a peripheral place within the Italian and European economies.
In this picture, the measure of one's actions is whether they spring from and express essential aspects of one's identity or whether they come from a peripheral place.
But because a celebrity occupies a pretty peripheral place in the worldview of most people, for most people, a celebrity's fall from grace causes nothing more severe than morbid curiosity.
Porn occupies a very peripheral place in my life; I only use it to help me sleep after a night of uppers because the torrent of depressing epiphanies about making better life decisions obstructs access to my mental palm vault.
The auditor also said the firm's renewable energy unit EDF EN had a "marginal" and "peripheral" place within the firm and that EDF had been slow to invest in energy services.
I was brought up on the outskirts of west London, so I feel a special affinity with these peripheral places.
Now he is going further afield in an effort to show he is serious about putting poor and peripheral places at the center of his papacy.
He thinks many feel that the faltering nature of deal making, following Greater Manchester and a string of other places, has privileged some places over others – and with many big city deals largely sorted out, the Treasury, a key player, "seems to have lost interest in striking deals with more peripheral places".
Nicholson was attracted to peripheral places – such as Cumbria and later Cornwall – that had an undiluted poetic intimacy.
Instead they will be squabbling over the peripheral places in the forthcoming days.
