King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer (River Tyburn), LON

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In the 1600's, the three main rivers that carried London's shyte into the Thames were the Westbourne, Tyburn, and the Fleet

The Tyburn drains the middle part of the city, starting at Hampstead Heath then south through Belsize Park and St John's Wood to Regent's Park where it crosses through an Aqueduct over Regents Canal

It then cuts across Oxford Street and heads through short stretch of District line tunnel near to Baker Street station and heading down to the West End

The course takes it via Green Park and Constitution Hill before it finds itself at Buckingham Palace..

From Here it runs through Victoria and down to Pimlico before outfalling at old father Thames near Vauxhall Bridge

The River Tyburn in it's purest existence has long gone, instead becoming a CSO known as the King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer.

Allegedly it was once a prime fishing stream..

It's hard to visualise nowadays, as it's generally a combined sewer filled with brown trout and any sign of the Tyburn long being sucked off down the Mid Level No.2 Interceptor.

In order to see it properly, involved a number of trips over a few months, mainly separated by adverse weather and working between two Cities.

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