Earl's Sluice

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Earl's Sluice
The Earl's Sluice flows into the Thames

The Earl's Sluice flows into the Thames

Data
River system Thames
Drain over Thames  → North Sea
source in Ruskin Park on Denmark Hill
51 ° 27 ′ 50 ″  N , 0 ° 5 ′ 37 ″  W
muzzle in the Thames Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 41 ″  N , 0 ° 2 ′ 9 ″  W 51 ° 29 ′ 41 ″  N , 0 ° 2 ′ 9 ″  W

The Earl's Sluice is an underground river in London , England . He is after , 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert from the time of Henry I named. It is being built on Denmark Hill in Ruskin Park . In South Bermondsey opens River Peck in him before he at Deptford Wharf to the Thames flows.

course

repositioned former Kent and Surrey boundary stone

The river marks the border between the parishes of St Mary's in Rotherhithe and St Paul's in Deptford . Until 1889 this was also the border between Kent and Surrey .

The river ran under a bridge over which the Old Kent Road ran. There was a Thomas à Watering pub here, where pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales take a rest and the first story is told.

See also

literature

  • Paul Talling: Earl's Sluice. In: Paul Talling, Darren Bennett: London's Lost Rivers. Random House Books, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84794-597-6 .
  • AD Mills: A dictionary of London place-names. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-956678-5 , p. 79, ( books.google.de )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How London's Rivers Got Their Names. londonist.com, August 7, 2014, accessed April 27, 2016 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Earl's Sluice on Diamond Geezer Blog.
  3. ↑ Plaque on a nearby landmark. (Implemented in 1988)
  4. ↑ Lost Rivers from above - River Peck on Londonist, accessed April 27, 2016.