The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.
- Whitaker, William, 1836-1925.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The water supply of Kent : with records of sinkings and borings / by William Whitaker ... with contributions by H. Franklin Parsons ... Hugh Robert Mill ... and J.C. Thresh ... Pub. by order of the lords commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![KENT WATER SUPPLY. Present supply (1900, 1907), 245,000 gallons a day. Water good. St. Peter’s, Reading Street, Northdown, Westwood, Northwood and Dumpton also supplied. An arrangement has been made with the Corporation of Margate to take a supply from their works at Wingham. Brockley, see Lewisham. Bromley. Ordn. Map 271, new ser. ; Geol. Maps 6, London and its Environs, and London District, Sheet 4, (new.) 1. Gasworks, just north of the London Chatham and Dover Railway, between Bromley and Bickley Stations. 18G3. Communicated by the Manager from memory. About 172 feet above Ordnance Datum. Shaft 50 feet, the rest bored. Plenty of water. According to Mr. J. Lucas (Journ. Soc. Arts, vol. xxv., p. 608), the total depth is but 115 feet, and the water rose to 42 feet below the ground. Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. Mixed soil 50 50 T? Black- f Brick-earth and loam J heath and Woolwich J Hard, rocky gravel and oyster-S j rock, 2 feet > [ Pea-gravel and other gravel ... J 90 140 Beds] Green [Thanet] sand 10 150 Chalk ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 20 170 2. Widmore Kiln. 1869 ? Communicated by Mr. Colbb Child. About 190 feet above Ordnance Datum. Shaft 52 feet, the rest bored. From the surface of the ground to the top of the well ... ... ... ... ... ... about [Black- heath Beds, ? 60 feet] [Thanet Sand, 60 feet] Chalk ' Mild earth with sand Mild earth with sand veins ... “Burley” and mild earth ... _ Gravel (spring) [Sand j Dirty earth: mild blackish ] clay ... ... ... ... I Sand, with about 2 feet of [ black earth at bottom » >> >* 99 99 9) 99 99 Thickness. Depth. Ft. Ft. 20 20 40 10 50 20 70 10 80 10 90 10 100 40 140 10 150 Another well over 120 feet to chalk (?32 feet in chalk). 25 feet from the surface of the ground to the top of the well. Shaft 55 feet, the rest bored. Water stands 6 feet below the top of the bore-pipe. According to Mr. J. Lucas (Jouru. Soc. Arts, vol. xxv., p. 608), the water- level in one of these wells in 1877 was afc 60 feet below ground before, and 75 after pumping ; and the yield was 3,600 gallons an hour.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28126737_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
