...ty proper, but the metropolis as outsiders understand it. In 1613 Sir Hugh Middleton finished his aqueduct from Ware to London. This is yet called the New River, and discharges into a reservoir at Islington , a northern suburb of London. The water was distributed by wooden mains and lead-pipe branches. Water-carriers still plied their trade in the reign of Queen Anne, supplying households from the pu...