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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 ...

Over on Londonist: Time Machine, I've been gradually colouring in every building, field, pond, tree and road on the John Rocque map of London from ... The “50 Lost Waterways of Southwark ...

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 ...

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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 ...

They include the Fleet, arguably London’s most famous hidden river. The ponds in Hampstead, fed by the Fleet, are still used for swimming. Other lost rivers include the Walbrook, the Effra and ...

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 ...