Subterranean Rivers of London - Subterranean Rivers in London

Subterranean Rivers in London

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

River Thames – north bank from east to west:

  • The Langbourne (dubious – see below)
  • The Walbrook
  • The River Fleet, the largest; see Fleet Street
  • The Tyburn
  • The Tyburn Brook
  • The River Westbourne
  • Counter's Creek
  • Stamford Brook
  • River Brent (partly underground)
  • River Rom (partly underground)

River Thames – south bank:

  • The River Peck
  • The River Neckinger
  • The River Effra
  • The Falconbrook
  • The Graveney River
  • The Beverley Brook(part subterranean)

River Lea:

  • Hackney Brook
  • The River Moselle

Read more about this topic:  Subterranean Rivers Of London

Famous quotes containing the words subterranean, rivers and/or london:

    “The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)