It is the sound of water in a culvert, but that voice is also the River Fleet, still flowing, although long since lost. More poetically, the chatter of London’s waterways echoes into the present ...

For these intolerable opinions, the royal tribunal sentenced him to be publicly flogged through the streets of London, from Fleet Prison, built on the tidal flats where Fleet Ditch spilled out ...

The Daily Courant arrived in 1702, published from her home "by Fleet Ditch", where today Fleet Street ... and kickstart London's famous newspaper industry, which would cluster on Fleet Street ...