River Fleet
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Entrance to the Fleet River, Samuel Scott, c. 1750.
The River Fleet is the biggest of London's subterranean rivers.
River Fleet Media
The southern reaches of the Fleet, flowing beneath Holborn Bridge and Fleet Bridge, past Bridewell Palace, and into the Thames, as shown on the "Copperplate" map of London, surveyed between 1553 and 1559
The Fleet passing by St Pancras Old Church
The mouth of the River Fleet in 2002, appearing as a drainage outlet (obscured in shadow) in the embankment wall beneath Blackfriars Bridge
Londinium in the year 400 showing the Fleet to its west. The tributary Fagswell Brook is shown running from east to west.
- The Fleet River (Ditch) in London, in 1844, shown from the rear of the Red Lion Tavern before its demolition.*The old Red Lion Tavern stood at the corner of Chick Lane (also called West Street) and Field Lane, near Saffron Hill in West Smithfield, and adjacent to the Fleet Ditch. Map of location
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Other websites
- McRae, Andrew. ""On the Famous Voyage": Ben Jonson and Civic Space." Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 3 (September, 1998): 8.1-31 [1]
- Sub-Urban.com — River Fleet Archived 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Reviewing the Fleet
- Photos From The River Fleet Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Chesca Potter, "The River of Wells" Archived 2006-12-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Map of River Fleet superimposed over map of modern London
- A psychogeographical film of the River Fleet
- Map showing Ray Street Bridge Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
| Next confluence upstream | River Thames | Next confluence downstream |
| River Effra (south) | River Fleet | Walbrook (north) |
Coordinates: 51°30′39″N 0°6′16″W / 51.51083°N 0.10444°W
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