The Story of London's Lost Tyburn River

Beneath Buckingham Palace, a Victorian brick tunnel carries a river that most Londoners have never heard of. The Tyburn once flowed openly from Hampstead to the Thames, giving medieval London its first piped water, shaping the island where Parliament was built, and lending its name to the most notorious execution site in English history. This is the story of how a chalk stream became a sewer, and why it still flows in the dark.

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