Great Conduit

Great Conduit

The Great Conduit was a man-made underground channel in London, England, which brought drinking water from the Tyburn to Cheapside in the City. [From: 'Great Conduit (The) in Westcheap', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=9249. Date accessed: 10 November 2006.]

It was one of several such conduits and was constructed over a fifty-year period in the 14th century.

Use of the conduit ceased after the Great Fire of London in 1666.

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