In medieval days London was encompassed not only by a wall but by a ditch which in places was as much as 70ft broad. In Queen Elizabeth's reign it had become, in John Stow's words, "neglected and forced either to a very narrow and the same a filthy channel, or altogether stopped up." Houndsditch seems to have been the longest, surviving fragment of the odoriferous watercourse.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 5
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