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I think that's the Westbourne - it flows in a giant green cast iron pipe over the platform at Sloane Square tube. the Walbrook is really lost now - it's in the square mile (near but not under the street called Walbrook) - it was regarded as a 'sacred' river - by the Romans and possibly earlier - that's where they found the Temple of Mithras.

The Tyburn flows down near Marble Arch (previously known as the execution site called Tyburn cross) next to Park Lane, splits and empties into the Thames in two places - originally making Westminster an island. Then there is the Neckinger, the Peck, the Ravensbourne, the Effra, the Wandle, Deptford Creek, Stamford Brook (you've heard of that right?) etc, etc.

Sorry this is off topic and I am being a bore

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Not off topic if they are sacred rivers. It is the same in Newcastle, though streams lost, rather than rivers. The Lorte Burn, Benwell Burn, and many others, mainly forgotten and long culverted and diverted ...

Westbourne, of course!

I was working from a deficient memory - too lazy to go to the bookcase. :-)

And not off topic at all.

The Westbourne, of course! I was working from a deficient memory - too lazy to go to the bookcase :-)

And not off topic at all - remember all those depositions in the Thames, and other waterways. Who's to say our ancient cousins didn't use the streams as well as the river?

There's a thought: has any excavation work ever been done along the courses of the old lost rivers? I might have to pop into the MoL at lunch to have a nosey around again...

I don't think that these lost rivers are off topic. They point to where Mesolithic Londoners would most likely have lived.