Comments on: The River Fleet – London’s second tidal waterway

By: Westminster Abbey | London: Geography Buildings & Place

Westminster Abbey | London: Geography Buildings & Place — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:03:48 +0000

[...] was much wider, shallower, and more marshy than it is today. (For more about the now underground River Fleet’s history and geography, click [...]

By: Blog author

Blog author — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:58:16 +0000

I hope you enjoy it!

By: Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:50:17 +0000

Thank you very much, maybe I’ll explore the those tunnels one day…

By: Spencer Greystrong

Spencer Greystrong — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:37:58 +0000

A very interesting article. The Fleet River gave a lot of trouble when the Metropolitan Railway was being built in the 1860’s. They were using the ‘cut and cover’ method at Farringdon in 1862 when the Fleet undermined the embankment ‘filling the tunnel with sewage for a great distance’.

I can recommend a book called ‘The Lost Rivers of London’ by Nicholas Barton, first published in 1962 and revised and reprinted several times since. He lists 14 such rivers with another 5 ‘dubious’.

By: Blog author

Blog author — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:48:08 +0000

Thanks – glad you liked it. Articles like that one are tricky to write, they don’t flow from the keyboard….

By: Jondoe

Jondoe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:09 +0000

Nice handling of a topic that has the potential to completely run away from you. Having started and stopped writing similar articles on many occasions I know all too well how that can go.

By: Paraglider

Paraglider — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:38:30 +0000

Fascinating article. I lived and worked in Farringdon for a year or so and became quite interested in Fleet ‘memorabilia’ around Smithfields area. The idea of the underground river is haunting.