Walking London's Lost River Westbourne | Kilburn to Chelsea

Walking tour of London’s lost river Westbourne from Kilburn to Chelsea via Maida Vale, Paddington, Bayswater, Knightsbridge, and Belgravia. The Westbourne is one of London’s most celebrated lost rivers and wasn’t fully buried until the mid-1800s. Consequently its course is very well documented and is famously carried over Sloane Square Tube station in a pipe that can be seen from the platform. This is the walking route I took:
Kilburn High Road - Belsize Road - Kilburn Priory - Kilburn Park Road - Shirland Road - Formosa Street - Cross canal - Lord Hills Road - Westbourne Park Open Space - cross Harrow Road - Lord Hills Bridge - Porchester Road - Gloucester Terrace - Porchester Square - Dorchester Terrace North - Bishop’s Bridge Road - Gloucester Terrace - Cleveland Gardens - Cleveland Square - Devonshire Terrace - Brook Mews North - Elms Mews - Hyde Park - Long Water - Serpentine - Knightsbridge - William Street - Lowndes Square - Motcomb Street - Lowndes Street - Post Street - Cardogan Lane - D’Olyley Street - Sloane Square - Holbein Place - Whistler Square - Ranelagh Grove - Mulberry Square - Chelsea Bridge Road - Chelsea Embankment - Chelsea Quay

Some of the Sources:
OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17...
The Lost Rivers of London by Nicholas Barton
The Groundwater Diaries by Tim Bradford
THE LONDON NATURALIST, NO. 41, 1961
Springs, Streams, and Spas of London - Alfred Stanley Foord
The Underground Map
https://theundergroundmap.substack.co...
Old London’s Baths, Spas and Well - Septimus Sunderland
Some Lost Rivers of London, Wonderful London vol.2 - Alan Ivimey
Westbourne Green History
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch...

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Silent Flow - Shinji Wakasa
vallmo - baegel
Rainwater Epilogue - Rand Aldo
La fille aux cheveux de lin - Blair McMillen
Cottage In Wales - Sam Eber
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Over the Meadow, Over the Stream - Alan Rogers

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Rocque’s Map 1741-5
https://maps.nls.uk/view/245956129#zo...

1851 OS Map
https://maps.nls.uk/view/230275385
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