Finsbury
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The Walbrook – river of mystery…!
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, WalbrookAh, 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…