Talk:River Neckinger

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Isn't it *still* a river, albeit underground? --RobertBrook 13:21, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

I agree, it is. I've reworded the article to reflect that. WarpFlyght 06:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

it's not underground. I walked over the mouth of it today. Bit muddy maybe (tide was out) but definitely not undergroung Petsco 12:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is underground for most of its course. We need the actual source of the river. There was also a Neckinger Mills. Secretlondon (talk) 19:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neil Gaiman reference[edit]

"The Neckinger, along with subterranean Thames tributaries, the Fleet (Hole-born) and Tyburn, were mentioned in Neil Gaiman's 2013 short story Down to a Sunless Sea."

@AnonNep: This is a thousand word short story available online, the second sentence of which says of the Thames that "All the rivers flow into it, the Fleet and the Tyburn and the Neckinger, carrying all the filth and scum and waste..." Gaiman is just namechecking three tributaries of the Thames, possibly at random, and has nothing more to say about them.

Unless I'm missing some nuance of the text, this seems a textbook unhelpful pop culture example where the subject was used as an arbitrary example in passing. A reader clicking through to the reference, keen to see how Gaiman depicted the Neckinger, will not learn anything from it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 20:39, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest it demonstrates that the Neckinger has remained part of a Thames docklands literary landscape from Dickens to the modern day. But if you're determined to delete it, do so. AnonNep (talk) 07:14, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Dickens quote adds some vivid context for how the river would have been seen in his time, but the Gaiman one seems such a brief and contextless namecheck that I can't see how it tells us anything about anything, beyond the fact that Neil Gaiman knows or researched the names of three Thames tributaries in 2013. I'll remove it. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation[edit]

How is it pronounced? 87.75.117.183 (talk) 04:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]