HIDDEN LONDON RIVER
In the course of excavations before the rebuilding of a bank branch in Lothbury, London, large quantities of water have been encountered. The source is believed to be the old River Walbrook, from which iho short street of that title takes its name. Stow, in his survey of London, writing about the year 1600, says: “The running water . . . cntcreth the city between Bishopsgate and the lately-made postern called Moorgate. . . . This watercourse was afterwards vaulted over with brick . . . and since that also houses have been built thereon, so that the course of Walbrook is now hidden underground, and thereby hardly known.' 1
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Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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104HIDDEN LONDON RIVER Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 6
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