If anyone would like to find out more about the New River there's a really good audio tour of Clerkenwell that you can download onto your ipod. The tour takes you from the St Pancras station area and through Clerkenwell where there's the remains of the reservoir and river head. It's a really quiet area - more of a village than part of London, with hardly a car to be seen in some parts. A really lovely historic walk. You can also listen to this and lots of other audio tours at http://londonwalks.libsyn.com/ Much, much recommended. Elaine Saunders www.book-about.blogspot.com > >>From Mist's Weekly Journal ( London, England ), Saturday, January 7, >>1727; > Issue 90. > > LONDON, January 7. > A stately Monument is going to be erected at Ware, in Hertfordshire, to > the Memory of Sir Hugh MIDDLETON, a Worthy Knight of Wales, who, in the > Year > 1608, begun the New River from that Town to this City, and finish'd the > same in the Year 1613. There were 600 Men employ'd in this great and > useful > Work, which was indeed thought fitter for a Prince than a Subject; but > the > New River Company are now paying this just Tribute to his Memory. >