Sorry, you're wrong about the location of the Moss Lake.
The Moss Lake was not near Islington, it was the current site of Crown Street/Abercromby Square. Though it is shown on the map below I believe it is slightly too far south and that the 'Reservoir' was part of the Moss Lake.
I think you might be getting confused with Moss Street which has nothing to do with the Moss Lake.
(shown on this map: http://www.leverpoole.co.uk/1.001/m/...itycentre.shtm)
Picton in one of his Liverpool Geological Society papers says that the Moss Lake Fields had a seasonal* stream running off them towards London Road/William Brown Street called the 'Styrpul'. This Styrpul would join the stream running into the Lyverpul along Paradsise street.
Interestingly the Styrpul could be Anglo-Saxon in origin, 'Styr' (or Stir) meaning agitated water, ideal for describing a fast flowing seasonal stream.
*by seasonal I mean when it was raining during winter and the Moss Lake overflowed the stream would flow more visibly.
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