Walbrook

Walbrook is the name of a road and a - now running underground - brook in London. Both are located in the City of London, the historic center of the city.

Waters

The Walbrook played mainly in the middle of the 1st century, during the creation and settlement of Londinium by the Romans, an important role. He sprang at Finsbury, flowed through the walled city area and eventually led to the Thames. His mouth was around today's Cannon Street Railway Bridge at Walbrook Wharf. The watercourse divided the Roman city characterized in two, it was at that time probably used primarily for the supply of drinking water and for discharging the waste water. At its eastern shore, the Romans erected a Mithraic temple whose remains were rediscovered in 1954 during construction work. Near its mouth and also on the east bank, once stood the residence of the Roman governor. The creek itself was built over in the 17th century; since the Walbrook flows entirely underground.

Road

Today's road train, which was named after the Walbrook, runs parallel to the former stream. Here is the Church of St Stephen Walbrook. Your predecessor from Anglo -Saxon times was located on the west bank. 1439 then was the construction on the eastern shore. However, this was again destroyed in 1666 during the Great Fire of London. Under the direction of Christopher Wren, a new church was built up in 1672, which still exists today.

Research

In the 1860s took place under the leadership of General Augustus Pitt Rivers excavations along the road instead. The archaeologists found in the stream bed to a larger number of human skulls; other skeletal parts, however, were scarce. The Fund recalled a story from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, after which a renegade Roman legion had surrendered to the troops of the Asclepiodotus whose soldiers then executed and their severed heads were then thrown into the river. However, Geoffrey's historical work is considered largely unhistorical. Today, the research assumes that the skulls of victims originate, who had perished during the destruction of the city in the wake of the events of Boudicca uprising.

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51.5125 - 0.0906Koordinaten: 51 ° 30 ' 45 "N, 0 ° 5' 26 " W

  • River in Europe
  • River in England
  • Thames River system
  • Waters in London
  • Street in London
  • History of London
  • Transport structure in the City of London
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