River Westbourne
About River Westbourne
The Westbourne or Kilburn, also known as the Ranelagh Sewer, is a culverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and Brondesbury Park and which as a drain unites and flows southward through Kilburn and Bayswater to skirt underneath the east of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake then through central Chelsea under Sloane Square. It passes centrally under the south side of Royal Hospital Chelsea's Ranelagh Gardens before discharging into Inner London's combined sewer system, with exceptional discharges into the Inner London Tideway. Since the latter 19th century, the population of its catchment has risen further but to reduce the toll it places on the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works and related bills its narrow basin has been assisted by private soakaways, and public surface water drains. Its depression has been replaced with and adopted as a reliable route for a gravity combined sewer. The formation of the Serpentine relied on the water, a lake with a long, ornate footbridge and various activities associated, which today uses little-polluted water from a great depth.
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Bayswater and Knight's Bridge, where there was a bridge for knights and so on. It would be insane to bring someone from old London to new London and show that we've turned it into sort of metal rivers now, like the robotic future. Especially Knight's Bridge, which was also the Westbourne River, so the same one that goes through Sloane Square. The Knight's Bridge was the bridge over that river.
from 335: No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 at 00:05:09 · read transcript
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That's the exciting thing about London, is that really nobody has a full map of it. That's the extraordinary thing. We don't really have a full map of where everything goes, where all the pipes are, were all deserted tunnels and so on. That in Sloan Square is the Westbourne River. It used to be called the Serpentine River. They had to divert it when they built the underground.
No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 · listen
We don't really have a full map of where everything goes, where all the pipes are, where all the deserted tunnels and so on. That in Sloan Square is the Westbourne River. It used to be called the Serpentine River and it was, they had to divert it when they built the underground and they divert it into a massive pipe and it crosses between the platforms just above where the carriages travel.
335: No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 · listen
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Coordinates: 51.4920, -0.1560