{"id":524,"date":"2011-08-21T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T13:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:12:44","slug":"mapping-londons-underground-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/mapping-londons-underground-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping London&#8217;s Underground Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the odd rumble of a tube train, or perhaps a burst pipe in winter, Londoners often overlook the goings on beneath their feet. For this reason many are unaware that the city is built on a network of rivers and streams- each one progressively covered over as the city developed. These underground\u00a0waterways have not disappeared entirely from view with the odd street name (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fleet_Street\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet Street<\/a>) and\u00a0occasional opening in the banks of the Thames acting as reminders of their presence. Many people enjoy walking along the routes that these rivers flow and others have made efforts to map them. One of the most novel maps has been produced (I think) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemed.net\/carto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Fairhurst\u00a0<\/a>for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverbritainmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Magazine<\/a>\u00a0and shows a few of the\u00a0subterranean\u00a0rivers alongside some other notable underground features in London. It is, of course, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tube_map\" target=\"_blank\">Beck&#8217;s Tube map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemed.net\/carto\/underground.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/London_lost_rivers_beck.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/London_lost_rivers_beck.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/London_lost_rivers_beck-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most impressive map of London&#8217;s lost rivers I have seen is the animation below produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandracrispart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Crisp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/41844780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2423\" alt=\"uground_rivers_screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uground_rivers_screenshot.png\" width=\"962\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uground_rivers_screenshot.png 962w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/uground_rivers_screenshot-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the rivers in the animation above it is the River Fleet that seems to inspire the most people and\u00a0Simon Dovar is no exception. He created one of my favourite entries to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/londonist.com\/2010\/12\/hand-drawn-maps-the-river-fleet.php\" target=\"_blank\">Londonist Hand Drawn Maps<\/a> competition which charts the route of the fleet across London by erasing the pencil-drawn road network.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lost_fleet_handrawn_londist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-531\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lost_fleet_handrawn_londist-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lost_fleet_handrawn_londist-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lost_fleet_handrawn_londist-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the odd rumble of a tube train, or perhaps a burst pipe in winter, Londoners often overlook the goings on beneath their feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[90,97,120,135,137,158],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tube","tag-london","tag-lost","tag-rivers","tag-streams","tag-subterranean","tag-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}