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Building    To 1868

Hyde Park Conduit House

Categories: Food & Drink, Property

Building

A building that housed an ancient spring supplying water to Westminster Abbey. The right to use this was granted by King Edward the Confessor. This right ceased temporarily at the Reformation, but was restored by royal charter in 1560. According to the very authoritative the spring was cut off by the Metropolitan Railway in 1861 but we note that the route of that railway is nowhere near. Disused, the house was demolished in 1868.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Hyde Park Conduit House

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