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But this is no ordinary sewer; the water that can be heard – and just about glimpsed – is that of the River Fleet, one of at least five lost rivers that threaded through London until the mid ...

The river is one of many in London that was converted into a sewer as the capital's population grew. Today, in many parts of the city you could be standing within inches of one of its lost rivers ...

Fleet, Tyburn, Effra, Westbourne... you may well be familiar with the lost rivers of London, thanks to a recent surge in books, novels, articles and films inspired by the waterways. One aspect ...

Old maps show a skein of rivers and brooks that provided ... a wilderness in a little-used park in the north London borough of Enfield, this "lost" tributary of Pymmes Brook – itself a tributary ...

As its title suggests, London’s geology is dominated by clay, along with sand and gravel in the river valley’s bedrock. Mr Chivers overlays a street map with colours representing the different ...

For years The Lost Rivers of London was the only book on its subject. Written in the scholarly style of its time, applied to everything from monastery tide-mills to maps of ghost reports ...

Reading and looking at maps – that was always important ... You frequently describe your time spent tracing lost rivers around London as a pilgrimage of sorts. What could this pilgrimage tell people ...

Here and there, it’s also possible to remember our lost rivers with a meandering walk ... it was possible to trace the passage of London’s old rivers in a map of diseases such as bronchitis. These are ...

The River Fleet is one of London’s “lost rivers” — once an open waterway ... Britain’s war effort during the Blitz. From the map rooms with pins still in place to the cramped living ...

Cities all over Britain are threaded by 'lost rivers' that have been hidden away in ... and reducing flood risk. The fact that London has 600 kilometres of rivers, with 13 major river catchments areas ...