The water supply of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, from underground sources: with records of sinkings and borings / by Horace B. Woodward ... and Beeby Thompson ... with contributions on rainfall by Hugh Robert Mill.

  • Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
Date:
1909
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Credit: The water supply of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, from underground sources: with records of sinkings and borings / by Horace B. Woodward ... and Beeby Thompson ... with contributions on rainfall by Hugh Robert Mill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. Cotton End. Cottages adjoining the Bell Inn, and Herring’s Green Farm House (same section). About 100 feet above Ordnanoe Datum. Communicated by Mr. J. Hannam. Oxford Clay Kellaway Beds. Sand Ft. 104 6 110 Plenty of water was got from the sand and it stands 20 feet up in the well. A. C. G. C. Clapham. Geol. map One-inch N.S. 203 ; Six-inch map 11 N.E. Communicated by Mr Cameron. 1. Twinwood Farm, well to S.E. 275 feet above Ordnance Datum. Through Boulder Clay to a depth of 50 feet or more. Not much water. [? in Kellaways Beds.] 2. Well 800 yards west of Church. Water stands 2 feet in depth. Ft. Great Oolite Limestone . 1 ----- 10 3. Sheppard’s Nurseries. 1890. Dug 30 feet, the rest bored River Drift Estuarine Series Loamy soil and Gravel Ft. - 12 Limestone ------ . is do. - . 2 r Blue clay, with wood [lignite] . 4 Greenish clay ----- . 4 Hard sandy rock ... - - - - ^Greyish sandy clay - . i 431 4. Hospital about half a mile to north of Clapham Folly, and close to the Kimbolton Road. Well and Boring. 1899. Communicated by Mr. Preston, Architect, Bedford. Dug 45 feet, the rest bored. Oxford Clay Kellaways \ Beds / Cornbrash j and Great [ Oolite Clay J Great Oolite Series N Clay Sand and clay Rock.and clay Rock Clay Rock Blue clay Stone Clay Total - Ft. - 18 - 22 - 5 - 18 - 7 - 89