Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ommissionersof the Board of Works caused it to resume itsoriginal name of Galley Wall. What may havebeen the origin of that name rt is now somewhat I32 OLD AND NEW LONDON. f Eermondsey. difficult to decide. Close by the eastern end ofthis roadway there was till within the last fewyears a narrow canal or ditch winding its sluggishcourse from the Thames, across the DeptfordRoad, and through the fields and market-gardens,in a south-westerly direction. This ditch, althoughfor the most part now filled up and obliterated,
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . ommissionersof the Board of Works caused it to resume itsoriginal name of Galley Wall. What may havebeen the origin of that name rt is now somewhat I32 OLD AND NEW LONDON. f Eermondsey. difficult to decide. Close by the eastern end ofthis roadway there was till within the last fewyears a narrow canal or ditch winding its sluggishcourse from the Thames, across the DeptfordRoad, and through the fields and market-gardens,in a south-westerly direction. This ditch, althoughfor the most part now filled up and obliterated, isthe boundary line separating the counties of Kentand Surrey. was employed in making the great wet dock atRotherhithe in the year 1694, and who remem-bered that in the course of that work a consider-able body of fagots and stakes were discovered,which Maitland considers as part of the worksintended to strengthen the banks of the adds, in his History of London, a remarkto the effect that it is allowed by many eminentantiquaries that there might have been such a. _Ll£7i)aaa_ st. church, bermondsey. It is said by historians that in order to reduceLondon, Knut cut a trench or canal throughthe marshes on the south of the Thames ; andMaitland considered that he had discovered itscourse, from its influx into the Thames at thelower end of Chelsea Reach through the SpringGarden at Vauxhall, by the Black Prince atKennington, and the south of Newington Butts, andacross the Deptford Road, to its outflux wherethe great wet dock below Rotherhithe is situated. It is quite possible that Maitland was rathercredulous, like many other antiquaries and topo-graphers ; though certainly it ought to be addedthat he does not speak without book, buthonestly gives his authority; for he says that he inquired of a carpenter named Webster, who water-course as Maitland describes from the wetdock at Deptford round by St. Thomas a Wateringand Newington Butts, quite up to Vauxhall, andinto
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