London plaque The Great Conduit

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# The Great Conduit at Poultry Standing on Poultry in the heart of the City, you're standing above one of medieval London's greatest engineering achievements—a pioneering water management system that served the bustling market district from 1245 onwards. The Great Conduit was built precisely here b...

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The Great Conduit lies beneath this spot. Built by the City of London in 1245 to provide public water water supplied by pipe from Tyburn springs. Removed after the Great Fire in 1666 and found during the construction of One Poultry in 1994