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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    Leighton Buzzard. Geol. map 46 S.W. ; One-inch map N.S. 220 ; Six-inch map 28 S.E. 1. Local Board Waterworks on Stanbridge Road. 319 feet above Ordnance Datum. Sunk 48 feet; the rest bored. Made and communicated by Messrs. C. Isler & Co., 1892. Water level 47 feet 6 in. from surface. Yield 12,000 gallons per hour. Thickness. Depth Ft. in. Ft. in. Gravel, etc. 10 0 10 0 Gault. Blue clay 32 6 42 6 /Dead sand 9 6 52 0 Blowing red sand and pebbles 3 6 55 6 Blowing red sand - - - 33 6 89 0 Blowing grey sand .... 10 9 99 9 Grey sandstone .... 4 9 104 6 Green stone and grey sand 2 9 107 3 Lower Grey sandstone .... 2 9 110 0 Greensand. ' Sandstone and shingle 3 0 113 0 Grey sandstone .... 5 0 118 0 Congealed stone, pebbles and sand - 1 6 119 6 Green sand and pebbles - 4 0 123 6 Stone and green sandy loam - 6 6 130 0 Stone 1 0 131 0 s Green sand and stone 13 0 144 0 2. London & North Western Railway Co., near South entrance to Linslade tunnel. (Bucks.) Six-inch map 28 S.W. Made and communicated by Messrs. Le Grand and Sutcliff. About 330 feet above Ordnance Datum. Water-level 35 feet down. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. Soil 2 2 ' Soft red sandstone and layers of sand 34 36 Red sand : a little water - 15 51 Live red sand 311 821 [Lower , Coarse live sand and small pebbles - 10i 93 Greensand.] ' Blowing sand 8 101 Sandy blue clay .... 3 104 Blowing sand - H 109^ ^ Sand and clay 2* 112 W. W. 3. South of Union, and just south of Dunstable Branch Railway. . Well through Boulder Clay into Lower Greensand, 39 feet deep. A. C. G. C. Lower Gravenhurst. Geol. map 46 N.E. ; One-inch map N.S. 220 ; Six-inch map 26 N.W. Ion Farm. Boring by Mr. Wilsher, of Greenfield. Yield 120 gallons a minute. Feet. [Gault] Clay 150 [Lower Greensand] Thin brown Rock - - 2 Water burst up. 152 At Ion Lodge and Fielding Farm good supplies were similarly obtained.