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. In. another well .at Keeley Lane, made for Mr. Henry Low, water as obtained at a similar depth through 50 feet of clay, into 10 feet of bright yellow sand. . 1 ... . . . 3. Williamson’s Well. 1892. Sunk 24 feet; the rest bored. Ft. Gravel and sand (a little water) - - 4 Oxford Clay with pyrites and water 40 4. Hall End. Parish well. 1891. Dug 50 feet. Ft. Brick earth - - - 10 [Oxford] Clay 45 [Kellaways] Sand 5 60 At another well on “ Charity Ground,” Hall End, the sand was reached at depth of 79 feet. 5. Wootton House. Dug 60 feet. [Oxford] Clay [Kellaways] Sand 6. Vicarage. Dug 30 feet. [Oxford] Clay - [Kellaways] Sand - Ft. - 105 5 110 Ft. - 55 - 5 60 7. Bott End. Water obtained through clay at depth of 59 feet. The above records were communicated by Mr. J. Fuller, well-sinker, to Mr. Cameron. Good supplies of water were obtained. Wrestlingworth. Geol. map 52 S.E. ; One inch N. S. 204 ; Six inch map 18 N.E. Water from shallow wells in Glacial drift over Gault. Delicient in summer. Dr. F. St. George Mivart, Report to Local Government Board, 1899. Wymington. 1. Rushden Waterworks. Geol. map 52 N.W. ; One inch map N.S. 186 ; Six-inch map 3 S.E. Communicated in part to Mr. Whitaker by Mr. W. Pare, Surveyor to the Urban District Council, and in part from notes by Mr. Madin and Mr. B. Thompson. Four wells, on the north side of the brook, and one on the south, varying from about 26 to 40 feet in depth. Water-level nearly 204 feet above Ordnance Datum. Supply exhausted after about 3 hours pumping ; but the water rises to the normal level again after about 2 hours. The wells are in gravel with a clay sump from 8 to 12 feet deep, but the water is probably derived from the Northampton Sand. Supply since obtained from Sywell in Northamptonshire. v O 10563,