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If you're interested in that, you might be interested in a weird fact about my home city. Coventry (also in the UK) was built on a river. I don't mean near a
by dijit 3y ago
If you're interested in that, you might be interested in a weird fact about my home city.
Coventry (also in the UK) was built on a river.
I don't mean near a river.. I literally mean, on a river; the river Sherbourne which you would never know even exists today.
What seems to have happened is that in medival times Coventrians built bridges, then homes on the bridges, then more bridges until eventually the river was sunken and runs underneath the modern day city center.
It's still possible to glimpse the river as it hasn't been entirely covered, but you would have to go looking for it quite intently.
https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/content.php?pg=sherbourne https://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/content.php?pg=sherb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Sherbourne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Sherbourne
- mytailorisrich 3y agoIt's not unusual. If a river is small enough, as the city grows the river often ends up completely culverted and buried underground. There are many in London, for instance: https://londonist.com/london/maps/london-s-lost-rivers-mapped-with-the-place-names-they-inspired https://londonist.com/london/maps/london-s-lost-rivers-mappe...
- NikkiA 3y agoSimilarly, Sheffield's railway station (fmr "midland"/"pond street") is built over one of sheffields rivers (the river sheaf - in fact, two rivers, since the Porter Brook and the River Sheaf join under Platform 5a)