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Giving the Walbrook the Elbow….

Jan 1, 2022

buildings, sources, travel

College Hill, Dowgate, Downgate Street, Edward III, Edward IV, Elbow Lane, F.J. Furnivall, flow, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Scrope, George Duke of Clarence, Henry I, John Nevill Lord Raby, John Stow, London, maps, Olde Hall, Richard of Warwick, River Walbrook, rivers, Roman era, sewage system, St Mary Overy, Thames Street

In this article I wrote the following:- “….The Walbrook flowed quite swiftly [south] from its source, but on nearing the Thames the land flattened considerably, and the river seems to have indulged in a curve….” This curve or meander, when filled in and “improved” in the 15th century, for the river to flow more…
The Walbrook – river of mystery…!

Aug 21, 2019

buildings, travel

Besant, Bloomberg Development, Bucklersbury, Cannon Street, Chelsea, Christopher Hibbert, Cloak Lane, Dowgate, F.J. Furnivall, Finsbury, Geoffrey Chaucer, London, maps, Moorfield, navigation, Old Barge Inn, Peter Ackroyd, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Stephen Walbrook, Thames, Thames Street, The London Encyclopedia, Thomas More, Walbrook

Ah, what a romantic picture the title of this post conjures. It is certainly not descriptive of the now invisible Walbrook , which had to be covered because it stank so much. Well, the smell was one of the reasons for it being enclosed. I have recently been researching the Walbrook’s exact course. Or, at…