Served by one of London's many underground streams, the water was praised for being "bright, sparkling, and cool, and of an agreeable taste". These qualities were later found to be derived from decaying organic matter from adjoining graveyards, and the leaching of calcium from the bones of the dead in many new cemeteries in north London through which the stream ran from Hampstead.
I went down this rabbit hole a while ago. It's so horrific lol
On its relocation in 1876, the New River Company changed the supplies to mains water.
Tasty
I went down this rabbit hole a while ago. It's so horrific lol
It doesn’t pump at all nowadays