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"Forgotten Streams", a sculpture by Cristina Iglesias marking the location of the Walbrook.

The Walbrook is a subterranean river in London. It gives its name to the Walbrook City ward and to a nearby street. It played an important role in the Roman settlement of Londinium.

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River Walbrook

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The Walbrook is a subterranean river in London. It gives its name to the Walbrook City ward and to a nearby street. It played an important role in the...

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Walbrook

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Walbrook is a Ward of the City of London and a minor street in its vicinity. The ward is named after a river of the same name. The ward of Walbrook contains...

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St Stephen Walbrook

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side of Walbrook Street, still on the east side of the River Walbrook (later diverted and concealed in a brick culvert running under Walbrook Street and...

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River Fleet

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51.51083°N 0.10444°W / 51.51083; -0.10444 The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers, all of which today contain foul water for treatment...

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Subterranean rivers of London

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Street) River Walbrook Lorteburn or Langbourne (now dry) Black Ditch Muswell Stream (sub-sub-tributary via Pymmes Brook and the River Lea) River Moselle...

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Blomfield Street

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was built along the course of a part of the River Walbrook known as the Deepditch. Although the Walbrook is now culverted and runs beneath the street...

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Bishopsgate

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Blomfield Street was built on part of the historic course of the former River Walbrook, known at this point as Deepditch. Beyond Deepditch was the Moorfields...

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Londinium

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nexus shortly after the invasion. It was centred on Cornhill and the River Walbrook, but extended west to Ludgate Hill and east to Tower Hill. Just prior...

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Moorfields

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result of the defensive wall acting as a dam, impeding the flow of the River Walbrook and its tributaries. Moorfields gives its name to the Moorfields Eye...

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London Mithraeum

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Mithraeum, also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, is a Roman Mithraeum that was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during a building's...

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River Westbourne

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rivers_from_above_the.php Londonist.com: London's lost rivers from above (Nov 2009) "illustrations 1, 4 of the webpage of the Walbrook River page...

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River Neckinger

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The River Neckinger is a reduced subterranean river that rises in Southwark and flows approximately 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) through south London to...

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Ancient Celtic religion

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support in archaeology, including the many skulls found in Londinium's River Walbrook and the headless bodies at the Gaulish sanctuary of Gournay-sur-Aronde...

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Tributaries of the River Thames

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tributaries of the River Thames from the sea to the source, in England. There are also secondary lists of backwaters of the river itself and the waterways...

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Julius Asclepiodotus

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1860s, Augustus Pitt Rivers dug up a large number of human skulls, and almost no other bones, from the bed of the river Walbrook in London (Lewis Thorpe...

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Human sacrifice

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archaeological record, including the numerous skulls found in Londinium's River Walbrook and the twelve headless corpses at the Gaulish sanctuary of Gournay-sur-Aronde...

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Bloomberg tablets

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tablets were preserved by the thick, wet mud generated by the underground river Walbrook, which limited the exposure of the tablets to oxygen. Though there was...

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River Thames

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point on the river both deep enough for the era's ships and narrow enough to be bridged; Londinium (London) grew up around the Walbrook on the north bank...

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River Effra

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Effra in the south of the illustration at the Walbrook River website from the book N. Barton's Lost Rivers References Bonner, A. "Surrey Place-names" in...

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Architecture of London

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rectangular walled and gridded city was soon extended to the west over the River Walbrook, north towards marshy Moorfields and east to the area later known as...

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Walbrook Rowing Club

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Walbrook Rowing Club, colloquially sometimes named Teddington Rowing Club, is a rowing club, on the River Thames in England on the Middlesex bank 800...

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River Tyburn

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webpage of the Walbrook River page - a synopsis". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. It cites these books: The Lost Rivers of London Nicholas...

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List of rivers of England

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'subterranean' below) (R) Walbrook (subterranean) (L) River Fleet (subterranean, also known as the Holbourne) (L) River Effra (subterranean) (R) River Tyburn (subterranean)...

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Ralph Merrifield

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important academic paper, a study of Roman coins found at the bottom of the River Walbrook. Although not a specialist in any one particular aspect of Romano-British...

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Great Stink

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built in London from the 17th century when sections of the Fleet and Walbrook rivers were covered for that purpose. In the century preceding 1856, over...

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Diary of George Fletcher Moore

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Vocabulary of the Language of the [Aboriginals ...] (PDF). London: M. Walbrook. LCCN 43042806. OCLC 1042946137. OL 7030461M. Wikidata Q19081637. George...

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