Talk:River Westbourne

Contradiction?
The article says that "The river leaves the Serpentine by the cascade at the Eastern end of that lake", but earlier it states that since 1834 the water for the Serpentine was no longer supplied by the Westbourne - so how can this still be true?

Excellent
As someone who lives in the neighbourhood described in this article, I'd like to enthuse about this informative article. I've seen pictures of the Bayswater and the West Bourne, but only now understood the connection between them.

Victorian pedants
Removed "According to Victorian pedants" from the discussion of the name, since it seems to be merely an insulting reference to someone's scholarship without even including a reference to who did the research being denegrated.

I'm confused
Can this river still be seen further up stream or not? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.68.51.198 (talk) 10:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC).
 * No unfortunately not. The local authorities have little invested in surface water drains for roofs and gardens, nor a scheme better than hit-and-miss deep soakaways (the ideal, preferred private solution to prevent river pollution) so those things (and some street water surface water drainage) are placed, like the other lost rivers of London, in with the original foul drainage, and really no parallel surface water drain, which at some point could be exposed to public view, exists.  The saving grace here is the Serpentine, fed by pumped up water from deep in the water table, a nod to what existed centuries before, decent water before density of population arose.- Adam37  Talk  14:20, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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