Tyburn Tyburn Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne meaning 'boundary stream', is quite widely occurring, and the Tyburn Brook should not be confused with the better known River Tyburn, which is the next tributary of the River Thames to the east of the Westbourne. For many centuries, the name Tyburn was synonymous with capital punishment, it having been the principal
River Tyburn the depression of St James Park Lake to the river and Downing Street, the route to another mouth apparently cut across the present grid layout towards Thorney Street close to Lambeth Bridge, whilst a third route was a sewer pipe called the King's Scholar's Pond Sewer which issued near Vauxhall Bridge. River Tyburn The River Tyburn is a river in London, which runs underground from South Hampstead through St James's Park to meet the River Thames by Whitehall Stairs (near Downing Street and Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House). It is not to be confused with the Tyburn