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    • Falcon Brook
    • River Fleet
    • Hackney Brook
    • River Moselle
    • Muswell Stream
    • River Neckinger
    • Parr's Ditch
    • River Peck
    • Pudding Mill River
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    • River Tyburn
    • Tyburn Brook
    • River Walbrook
    • River Westbourne
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    • City Canal
    • Croydon Canal
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    • Kensington Canal
    • Romford Canal
    • Royal Arsenal Canal
    • The Royal Gunpowder Mills Canals
  • Author's Guided Walks
    • River Fleet Walk
    • River Tyburn Walk
    • River Westbourne Walk
    • Lost Rivers of Hampstead Walk
    • Lost Docks of Wapping Walk
    • Grand Surrey Canal Walk
    • Woolwich - Dockyard & Royal Arsenal Canal Walk
    • Isle of Dogs Canal and Millwall Docks Walk
    • Derelict Limehouse & Poplar Walk
    • Derelict Silvertown walk
    • River Peck/Earl's Sluice
    • Bow Creek
    • River Neckinger walk
    • Croydon Canal Walk
    • Hammersmith Walk
    • East Finchley to Gospel Oak
    • Whitechapel and Bethnal Green walk
    • Minories to Poplar
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  • London's Lesser Known Rivers
    • Beverley Brook
    • Bow Backs Rivers
    • River Brent
    • River Ching
    • River Crane
    • River Cray
    • River Darent
    • Dead River
    • Dollis Brook
    • Duke of Northumberland's River
    • River Ember
    • Hogsmill River
    • River Lea
    • River Mole
    • The New River
    • River Pool
    • River Ravensbourne
    • River Roding
    • The Silk Stream
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  • Home
  • London's Lost Rivers
    • The Black Ditch
    • Bollo Brook
    • Carbuncle Ditch
    • The Cock & Pye Ditch
    • Counter's Creek
    • Earl's Sluice
    • River Effra
    • Falcon Brook
    • River Fleet
    • Hackney Brook
    • River Moselle
    • Muswell Stream
    • River Neckinger
    • Parr's Ditch
    • River Peck
    • Pudding Mill River
    • Rotherhithe Mill Streams
    • Stamford Brook
    • River Tyburn
    • Tyburn Brook
    • River Walbrook
    • River Westbourne
  • London's Lost Canals
    • City Canal
    • Croydon Canal
    • Cumberland Arm
    • Grand Surrey Canal
    • Grosvenor Canal
    • Kensington Canal
    • Romford Canal
    • Royal Arsenal Canal
    • The Royal Gunpowder Mills Canals
  • Author's Guided Walks
    • River Fleet Walk
    • River Tyburn Walk
    • River Westbourne Walk
    • Lost Rivers of Hampstead Walk
    • Lost Docks of Wapping Walk
    • Grand Surrey Canal Walk
    • Woolwich - Dockyard & Royal Arsenal Canal Walk
    • Isle of Dogs Canal and Millwall Docks Walk
    • Derelict Limehouse & Poplar Walk
    • Derelict Silvertown walk
    • River Peck/Earl's Sluice
    • Bow Creek
    • River Neckinger walk
    • Croydon Canal Walk
    • Hammersmith Walk
    • East Finchley to Gospel Oak
    • Whitechapel and Bethnal Green walk
    • Minories to Poplar
  • Buy The Book Here
    • Sample Chapter
    • Reviews
  • London's Lesser Known Rivers
    • Beverley Brook
    • Bow Backs Rivers
    • River Brent
    • River Ching
    • River Crane
    • River Cray
    • River Darent
    • Dead River
    • Dollis Brook
    • Duke of Northumberland's River
    • River Ember
    • Hogsmill River
    • River Lea
    • River Mole
    • The New River
    • River Pool
    • River Ravensbourne
    • River Roding
    • The Silk Stream
    • River Wandle
    • Yeading Brook
  • Contact/Mailing List
  • Advertising on London's Lost Rivers
  • Privacy Policy/Cookies
  • London's Lost Music Venues
London's Lost Rivers - Book and Walking Tours by Paul Talling
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River Fleet (Blackfriars to St Pancras) Guided Walking Tour
​ with Paul Talling (author of London's Lost Rivers)

​​'Paul Talling is a connoisseur of these lost waterways' - BBC The One Show
Exploring drains and man hole covers on a walking tour of the River Fleet outside a pub in Clerkenwell with author Paul Talling
Pic courtesy of Dick Millard
Using ancient maps walking around London's Lost Rivers. Guided Walks by Paul Talling : River Fleet, River Westbourne, London Docks (Wapping), Royal Woolwich Dockyard & Royal Arsenal Canal, Isle of Dogs, the Grand Surrey Canal & The Lost Rivers of Hampstead.
Pic courtesy of David Jenner
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Tickets must be purchased in ADVANCE from WeGotTickets
A deatiled 4 hour guided (above ground) walking tour of the lower part of the lost River Fleet’s course. Starting off outside an Art Nouveau Grade II listed pub which is decorated throughout with multicoloured marble, mosaics, and bronze reliefs of monks. The pub stands on the site of a Dominican Monastery which stood beside the River Fleet. The walk takes in (a partial) view of the outfall chamber into the Thames, a talk about the London sewer system, the sites of the old prisons, bridges and wells that used to line the banks of the Fleet, the Holborn viaduct which spans the Fleet Valley, Smithfield Market (including a brief look at the defunct parts), Hockley In-the-Hole an ancient haunt of thieves and the site of bear-baiting where you can now hear the sound of the Fleet flowing beneath a drain cover, finishing up at the St Pancras Old Church where people once bathed in the adjacent Fleet plus a look at a few of the interesting gravestones.

Other fascinating points along the route include the Clerkenwell courthouse where the Clash were kept in the cells, the Lighthouse building in Kings Cross, the site on Farringdon Rd where the Labour Party was founded, the street where Charles Dickens located Fagin’s Den, the churchyard where the Beatles shot album sleeve photos and even the hotel where Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet worked in his youth!

At the end: Maybe a pub (The Cobden Arms or the Old Eagle -  family run pubs that serves good value decent food) 
Clerks Well in Clerkenwell on the route of the River Fleet on the walking tour with Paul Talling from Blackfriars to St Pancras
The Clerk's Well on the bank of the Fleet
Lost Smithfield and its derelcit market buildings. London walking tours with Paul Talling routes of lost rivers/canals/docks
Derelict part of Smithfield Market
Next date with available tickets: London's Lost River Fleet walking tour with author Paul Talling: Thursday 25 May 2023
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Tickets: £15.50 + booking fee
Meeting outside The Blackfriar pub - 174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, London, EC4V 4EG 
Rail & tube: Blackfriars. Bus route 45,63, 100 & 388
Duration of Walk: Approx 4  hours. Ending between Kings Cross/St Pancras and Mornington Crescent.
​I’m a Londoner by birth, but there’s so much of it, it’s impossible to every know it all. These are guided walks unlike any others. The groups are small and many people are regulars. You have to book online months in advance, and when new walks are announced most of them are full within a day of the email going out! Paul is an absolute mine of information, not just about the history of the places on the walk, but everything else too. It’s a real mix of Paul’s own lived experience and his meticulous research. The tours feel really informal and personal – unscripted and relaxed, and always ending at a ‘real boozer'. 
​Robin (www.eastbournediary.co.uk) 
St pancras old Church on the route of the River Fleet with author Paul Talling on his walking tour
2021 - St Pancras Old Church
River Fleet guided walk with Paul Talling. 1827  Bathers on the banks of the Fleet next to St Pancras Old Church
1827 - Bathers on the banks of the Fleet next to St Pancras Old Church
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