According to this new history book, the name Stroud Green means 'watery bog' or 'pestilental miasma seeping from soggy marsh' in olde English - or someting like that. So it's perfectly natural.
Thames Water told me they are looking at it, which is progress of a sort. (Perhaps to the skilled eye one puddle looks much more different than another puddle?)
A quick update - as fixing this requires digging up a busy road, Thames Water have said they've got to sort things with TfL/the council and so it may be some time before the digging happens.
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