Talk:White Conduit Fields

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Does anyone have any information on where the fields' somewhat unusual name comes from? My guess would be that the "conduit" refers to the piping of a subterranean river in the vicinity, but is this known to be the case, and if so, which river is it? What about the "white" part? 86.136.94.95 16:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC) I suspect that as White Conduit Street's southern terminus is at the header reservoir of the 'New River' an artifical river built by the 'New River Water Company' in the early 17th Century, it probably was a conduit to carry water north along the ridge of Thornhill.

New River Head is adjacent to Sadler's Wells and is around 200 metres from the reservoir, I don't know the age of the reservoir, but the windmill that was used to fill it dates from the early 17th Century.