Route of the River Westbourne (highlighted in blue) shown between West End (now known as West Hampstead) and the Thames on a map from 1790.The River Westbourne running above the platforms of Sloane Square tube station. The drain is inside the green conduit above the train.
The Westbourne or Kilburn is a culverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and Brondesbury Park and which as a drain unites and flows southward through Kilburn and Bayswater (west end of Paddington) to skirt underneath the east of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake then through central Chelsea under Sloane Square. It passes centrally under the south side of Royal Hospital Chelsea's Ranelagh Gardens before discharging into Inner London's old-fashioned, but grandiose combined sewer system, with exceptional discharges (to be abated by a 2021-completion scheme[citation needed]) into the Inner London Tideway. Since the latter 19th century, the population of its catchment has risen further but to reduce the toll it places on the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works and related bills[clarification needed] its narrow basin has been assisted by private soakaways, and public surface water drains. Its depression has been replaced with and adopted as a reliable route for a gravity combined sewer.
The formation of the Serpentine relied on the water, a lake with a long, ornate footbridge and various activities associated,[clarification needed] which today uses little-polluted water from a great depth.
The Westbourne or Kilburn is a culverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and Brondesbury Park and which as a drain unites and...
England Westbourne, Tennessee, United States Westbourne, West Sussex, England Westbourne (Chichester) (UK electoral ward) RiverWestbourne, in London...
curving shape, although it only has one bend. Originally fed by the RiverWestbourne and Tyburn Brook in the 1730s, the lake's water was then pumped from...
51°30′54.2″N 0°11′42.3″W / 51.515056°N 0.195083°W / 51.515056; -0.195083 Westbourne Grove is a retail road running across Notting Hill, an area of west London...
(Newfoundland), Canada Serpentine River (Québec), Canada The RiverWestbourne, London, England (formerly known as the Serpentine River) The Serpentine, London,...
shown indented River Brent (partially underground) Stamford Brook Parrs Ditch Counter's Creek RiverWestbourne Tyburn Brook River Tyburn River Fleet, (following...
structure. Lea Bridge Lower Lea Crossing Knightsbridge across the RiverWestbourne Stamford Bridge across Counter's Creek Merchant Square Footbridge The...
Serpentine between 1726 and 1731 by damming the eastern outflow of the RiverWestbourne from Hyde Park. The part of the Serpentine that lies within Kensington...
area. Westbourne Terrace is named after the local RiverWestbourne, a tributary of the River Thames, and is one of a large number of Westbourne streets...
Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the RiverWestbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne, means 'boundary stream'. The parish...
former tenants. Belgravia is near the former course of the RiverWestbourne, a tributary of the River Thames. The area is mostly in the City of Westminster...
Westminster. It was named after a crossing of the RiverWestbourne, which is now an underground river. It is recorded that the citizens of London met Matilda...
tributary of the Westbourne and the next Thames tributary (west, on the north bank). A charter of AD 959 appears to mention the river, which it refers...
650-flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, and Queensway and Westbourne Grove, its busiest high streets, with a mix of independent, boutique and...
square and the lines cross under the square to the north west. The RiverWestbourne is carried over the tube station platforms in plain view, in a circular...
to Durham Terrace. Westbourne Gardens is one of eleven streets in the Westbourne area of Paddington named after the RiverWestbourne that once flowed through...
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...
former River Tyburn at its confluence with the Thames, while the western boundary with Chelsea was formed by the similarly lost RiverWestbourne. The line...
(R) RiverWestbourne (subterranean) (L) Tyburn Brook (subterranean) (L) Counter's Creek (subterranean – tidal reach known as Chelsea Creek) (L) River Wandle...
major streams feeding the river include the Big Grass River, Pine Creek, Squirrel Creek, Westbourne Drain and Rat Creek. The river's depth ranges from a few...
'Deptford Creek') River Roding River Rom River Shuttle River Thames River Wandle RiverWestbourne Salmons Brook Stamford Brook Three Mills River Tyburn Brook...
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the RiverWestbourne which ran through Hyde Park as the Serpentine Lake and was originally crossed by the Knight's Bridge at Knightsbridge. The river was...
the lake was fed by the RiverWestbourne entering at the Italian Garden at the north-western end of the Long Water. The Westbourne ceased to provide the...
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