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Tyburn Brook was a small
Tyburn Brook was a small tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...
stream to the West Bourne or Westbourne and ran mainly in Hyde Park for a few hundred metres south by south-west. It has lost its catchment to natural drainage into the gravelly topsoil and to surface water, foul and in early Victorian style combined sewers (mixing both types of water) and its small collect, its source remains beneath the earth to feed into a mixture of these. The Serpentine
The Serpentine (also known as the Serpentine River) is a Reservoir#Recreation, recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Caroline of Ansbach, Queen Caroline. Although it is common to refer to the entir ...
, having been the Westbourne's main showing is now fed by three boreholes instead. It is not to be confused with the much longer Tyburn, Ty Bourne or River Tyburn, but frequently was confused until the early 19th century as both were well west of the walls of the City of London
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Literary references
The brook was mentioned inWilliam Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...
's Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion:
They groan’d aloud onLondon Stone London Stone is a historic landmark housed at 111 Cannon Street in the City of London. It is an irregular block of oolitic limestone measuring 53 × 43 × 30 cm (21 × 17 × 12"), the remnant of a once much larger object that had st ...,
They groan’d aloud on ''Tyburn’s Brook'':
Albion gave his deadly groan,
And all the Atlantic mountains shook.
See also
*Subterranean rivers of London
The subterranean or underground rivers of London are or were the direct or indirect tributary, tributaries of the upper estuary of the River Thames, Thames (the Tideway) that were Subterranean river, built over during the growth of the metropo ...
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