London underground is prime real estate - to find a level and avoid
* the recent new massive and extensive sewer tunnels,
* the secret basement extensions of the ultra rich, multi story archival storage, vaults, etc,
* the new underground tunnels (rail / subway for US readers),
* old roman and other buried but still 'conserved' architecture,
* crypts, graves, plague pits,
* WWII UXB's etc. etc
is a hell of a 3D needle to thread - there's > 2,000 years of urban layering in that small area.
And unmapped (and changing, inadvertently diverted) rivers