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New River

Categories: Engineering, Food & Drink

The so-called New River is actually an aqueduct built 1609 - 1613 from near Ware, Hertfordshire, to Islington to bring fresh water from country springs to the City. It required a 1602 charter from King James I. Now, 2007, the New River is still used as a source for London's drinking water and also provides a 25 mile footpath. See also the remains of the windmill. Diamond Geezer has a very comprehensive post. And here is the walking guide.

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New River

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Claremont Close - WW2 damage

The charming insignia seems to show a roofscape, including a church, all behi...

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Clarendon Arch - 1786

This bank of earth was raised and formed to support the Channel of the New Ri...

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Enfield Millennium Fountain

The Millennium Fountain by Wendy Taylor CBE. Unveiled by the Worshipful the M...

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Hugh Myddelton - N21

Formerly Bush Hill House Sir Hugh Myddelton, engineer of the New River, lived...

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New River bridges - Clissold Park

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Watson Strother, A.M.I.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., A.R.I.C.S.

Watson Strother, A.M.I.C.E., M.I.Mun.E., A.R.I.C.S.

Watson Strother was born on 13 February 1902. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1902 in the South Shields Registration District, Durham and he was the eldest of the three children of J...

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1 memorial
First residential roof-top wind turbines

First residential roof-top wind turbines

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1 memorial
Harpinder Singh Narula

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A. C. Potter & Co

A. C. Potter & Co

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Group, Craft / Design, Engineering

1 memorial
George Robert Welby Wheeler, AMICE

George Robert Welby Wheeler, AMICE

George Robert Welby Wheeler was born on 20 November 1845 in Bermondsey, Surrey (now Greater London), the eldest of the six children of George Charles Wheeler (1820-1886) and Charlotte Wheeler née W...

Person, Architecture, Engineering, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Ivan Maisky & wife

That looks to us very much like the bust that Maisky and his wife unveiled at Holford Gardens, unfinished of course.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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Bethnal Green Neighbourhood

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