Editing River Fleet (section)

===Fagswell Brook===
The Fagswell Brook (also spelled ''Faggeswell'') was a tributary that joined the Fleet from the east and partially formed the northern boundary of the City of London.<ref>From a map based on Stow c.1600, (discussed in "Street-names of the City of London", (1954) by Eilert Ekwall) shows the "Fagswell Brook" south of Cowcross Street as the northern boundary of the City</ref> The brook flowed east to west on a line ''approximating'' to [[Charterhouse Street]] and [[Charterhouse Square]]. In 1603, the historian [[John Stow]] described its demise:

{{quote|Fagges Well, neare unto [[Smithfield, London|Smithfield]] by the [[London Charterhouse|Charterhouse]], now lately dammed up.<ref>'Introduction', in Survey of London: Volume 46, South and East Clerkenwell, ed. Philip Temple (London, 2008), pp. 3–27. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol46/pp3-27 [accessed 27 July 2020].</ref>}}

A part of the course close to Charterhouse Square was excavated as part of the [[Crossrail]] project.<ref>article on MOLA excavations http://islingtontribune.com/article/crossrail-engineers-find-500-year-old-shoes-in-clerkenwell-mud</ref>