Walbrook (stream)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 17, 2025 12:25 PM
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History
tags:
watercourse
Historical water course that ran through the heart of Roman London and flowed into the modern River Thames. Completely built over since the 19th century, it exists only as a subterranean stream and part of the London sewer system.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/964504689
51.5156539118, -0.087006640222
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Walbrook stream (AD 43 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- River Walbrook (English, modern)
- Walbrook (stream) connection Londinium/Augusta (AD 43 - AD 410)
- Walbrook (stream) flows into Tamesis (river) (AD 43 - AD 410)
- London Mithraeum located near Walbrook (stream) (AD 43 - AD 410)
river, drainage
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Pleiades
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Walbrook (stream): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/964504689> [accessed: 24 January 2026]
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