Plan shewing the course of River Westbourne and the Ranelagh Sewer taken from the plans at the Paddington Borough Council Offices.

context:

3b/6f/c3/25/3b6fc325-f6ca-41d8-b91e-8c5db3be8c13/london-maps-batch-2_objects/29

coverage:

Westminster (London, England)--Maps and Westbourne River (England)--Maps

date:

[between 1810 and 1829?]

identifier:

4026202

creator:

Great Britain Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster and Part of Middlesex

contributor:

Paddington (London, England) Borough Council

subject:

Westminster (London, England)--Maps, Sewerage--England--London--Maps, and Westbourne River (England)--Maps

rights:

A copyright review process in November 2021 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

format:

application/tif and reformatted digital

publisher:

[Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster and Part of Middlesex?]

language:

eng

type:

Maps and Cartographic Image

title:

Plan shewing the course of River Westbourne and the Ranelagh Sewer taken from the plans at the Paddington Borough Council Offices.

extent:

1 map in 6 parts on 2 sheets color 69 x 105 cm., or smaller

lcc:

G5754.W54N46 1800 .G75

Attribution:

Great Britain Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster and Part of Middlesex, Paddington (London, England) Borough Council, [Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster and Part of Middlesex?], and A copyright review process in November 2021 has determined that this particular item is in the public domain. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Description:

Cartographic material, The River Westbourne is a river in London, England which flows from Whitestone Pond on Hampstead Heath down through Hyde Park to Sloane Square and then into the River Thames at Chelsea. When Belgravia, Chelsea and Paddington were developed, it became necessary to drive the river Westbourne underground in order to build over it. The river was therefore directed into pipes in the early part of the nineteenth century, work which was completed in the 1850s. Since then, the Westbourne has been one of the lost rivers of London, running underground in a pipe. The pipe can still be seen running above the platform of Sloane Square tube station. The pipe is the original one constructed in the nineteenth century. Although the station was badly bombed during the Battle of Britain in November 1940, the old iron pipe was not damaged. The river falls into the river Thames about 300 yards (270 m) west of Chelsea Bridge. This outfall, from a pipe now called the Ranelagh Sewer, can still be seen at low tide, and Scale not given