River Fleet
About River Fleet
The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers, all of which today contain foul water for treatment. It has been used as a culverted sewer since the development of Joseph Bazalgette's London sewer system in the mid-19th century with the water being treated at Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. Its headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath, each of which was dammed into a series of ponds—the Hampstead Ponds and the Highgate Ponds—in the 18th century. At the southern edge of Hampstead Heath these descend underground as sewers and join in Camden Town. The waters flow 4 miles (6 km) from the ponds.
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Fleet Prison was next to the River Fleet, which is a now underground river that runs through London.
from 314: No Such Thing As A Tiny Ferris Wheel, 2020-03-27 at 00:03:04 · read transcript
Other times River Fleet came up
I'm embarrassed to say. Wow. Oh, wow. Inventing the machine gun. He was also, which links us back to an earlier conversation, he was the person who put electric light into the West End, and he put the lighting into the Palace Theatre where the River Fleet runs below, and where I once worked in the Electrics Department. Wow. Hang on, you worked in the lighting. Was that nepotism?
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