What did London plaque The Great Conduit do at Poultry?

The Story

# 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 because Poultry was already the commercial heart of London, where merchants gathered to trade poultry and provisions, and the burgeoning population desperately needed clean water delivered by pipe rather than hauled from the Thames. For over four centuries, this underground conduit was the city's lifeline, channeling fresh water from the distant Tyburn springs directly into the heart of London's commerce, making it possible for the market to thrive and the surrounding businesses to flourish. When the Great Fire of 1666 consumed medieval London, the Great Conduit was destroyed—lost to history until 1994, when construction workers breaking ground on One Poultry rediscovered its remnants, revealing that beneath this very spot lay the remnants of the infrastructure that had literally and figuratively kept medieval London flowing.