Caroline Crampton

The watery life of the capital

Following a now well-trodden path in the riparian canon, Tom Chivers, armed with a Streetfinder map and a few friends, walks the course of several of the lost rivers of London

Boys bait their lines on the River Wandle, one of London’s lost rivers, which flows from Carshalton Pond through the inner city to the Thames. Credit: Getty Images

  • London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City

    Tom Chivers

    Doubleday, pp. 464, £20

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