[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.
- Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![above sea level. The main natural drainage of the northern ])art of the Borough is by means of a watercourse, known as the Layton Dyke Dor part of its course the boundary between Blackpool and Hardhorn), into Marton Mere, and thence into the Wyre, and thus into the sea at Fleet- wood. Geology. The town may be roughly divided into two portions ; the first being that north of the Central Station, and having a subsoil of glacial boulder clays, the two beds being separated by sands and shingle, together at Norbreck reaching more than loo feet in thickness, and resting on an ancient plane of marine denudation cut in the new red marls which, east of Fleetwood are salt bearing ; the rock salt being thicker than any in Cheshire. The second, which lies south of the Central Station, consist of peat, lying on the glacial drift. This bed of peat is of varying thickness of 10, 20, or even 30 feet, being overlain with a greater or less thickness of blown sand. North of Blackpool it re- appears at Rossall, and is associated with a submerged forest. The boulder-clay subsoil extends beneath Claremont, Talbot, Bank Hey, and a portion of Brumswick Ward, and also the easterly portion of Foxhall Ward. The portion of Brunswick Ward from the Central Station to Princess Street, and to a short distance east of the coast railway line, has a peaty sub-soil, which, in this locality, comes nearly to the surface, and is of variable depth, rendering the ground very treacherous in places. The remainder of Foxhall and Waterloo Wards has a good depth of blown sand over-lying the peat, except in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28932237_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
