Let's meet up and go on the trail of London’s buried river

In the still morning beauty of Hampstead Heath, coot chicks scramble and swans glide across the Vale of Health pond. We are in Arcadia, north London, yet we cannot tarry. This bucolic stretch of water, overlooked by the homes of the wealthy, is one potential source of the capital’s lost river, the Fleet.

Much of its progress is underground, making it hard to follow, or even find. But, somewhere beneath our very feet, it rises up, before travelling six miles southwards to the swirling squalor of the muddy Thames at Blackfriars. Our mission here on 'The Thames Path Pub Crawl Meetup' is to join it on that journey. Let us follow the Fleet!