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4 days ago · During the digging and widening of the Fleet Ditch, in 1676, there, at a depth of fifteen feet, was found the stray rubbish, bones, and refuse of Roman London. The coins were of silver, copper, and brass, but none of gold.
- The Fleet Prison
CHAPTER XLIX. THE FLEET PRISON. An Ancient Debtors'...
- The Fleet Prison
This lower section of the river was known as the Fleet Ditch. It had become so silted and filled with rubbish that it was more of a ditch than a river. The cheap surrounding land also made it a popular spot for building prisons.
The River Fleet is the most well known of London’s subterranean rivers and is known to be used in Roman times as a major river with a tide mill in its estuary. The word "Fleet" is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word flēot meaning "estuary, bay or inlet". The Fleet once was a broad tidal basin several hundred feet wide.
- Navigation on The Fleet River
- The Fleet Canal
- The River with No Name?
Records show that the Fleet was quite wide and substantially deep, so it higly likely that vessels could ply from the Thames to Kings Cross, around three miles in total. It is said that the Fleet was 65ft wide at both Camden and Kings Cross in times of flood, therefore it must have been around 25 to 30 ft in normal circumstances (findings indicate ...
By the time of the Great Fire of London in 1666, substantial lengths of the Fleet were straightened. The Fleet was given a second chance as a navigation when attempts were made to clean up its filthy condition. From St Pancras towards High Holborn, it was largely culverted. As part of those works, a wider reach was built from the Thames to High Hol...
The River of Wells was a popular name for the Fleet in view of the number of wells that were found on its banks north of Clerkenwell. These were as follows, Bagnigge Wells, Black Mary’s Hole, St. Chad’s Well and St.Pancras Well. A reason for calling it the ‘River of Wells,’ as some early writers have pointed out, is due to the fact the river had no...
Londoners used the Fleet River, located just west of the city wall, for exporting goods. Saussure describes the Fleet Ditch as “sort of a canal, where barges come up with the help of the tide.”
Sep 4, 2015 · We look at the many proposals and plans, the Fleet line works that were actually started, those abandoned, and explore the changes and the thinking that took place thanks to London’s changing political makeup right up until 1979, when the newly-christened Jubilee line finally opened.
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Nov 27, 2020 · The River Fleet is London’s most famous, most notorious, and most mysterious ‘Lost’ River. It rises on Hampstead Heath and has two sources. One is in Kenwood where it flows down the East side of the Heath feeding the Highgate Ponds.
