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Secret tunnels are the stuff of mystery and intrigue and are a draw to the brave souls who are moved to explore them. This tunnel beneath the streets of Oxford, its University and Colleges and the Westgate Shopping Centre has all the right ingredients. It is claimed that daring Victorian explorers tried to traverse it in a punt and that their skeletons were found there many years later. TE Laurence, Laurence of Arabia, was much more successful in a canoe and modern day adventurers venture underground in waders and armed with video cameras. It is called the Trill Mill Stream and in centuries past became Oxford’s open sewer carrying the city’s filth and rubbish down to contaminate the River Thames on its way to London. Now it is a secret underground place leaving Paradise Square and exiting at the college of Christ Church.