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

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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$3. Widmore (Tylney Road), just east of the Kiln. Communicated by Mr. Coles Child. Dug 77 feet, the rest bored. To Chalk 137 \ 1G2 f t In „ 25 J 4. Pixfield. 1817. Mr. Latter’s house is near the bottom ot the Bavensbourne Valley. Communicated by Mr. R. B. Latter to Sir J. Prestwich, 1856. 151J feet above Trinity high-water-marlr. Ample supply of water from the Chalk. ? Rose to about 60 feet from the surface. Thickness. Depth. [River Drift? or Black- heath Beds ?] [Thanet Beds, 59 feet] [Upper Chalk, 391 feet] [? Middle Chalk] f Red clayey gravel ... < Green clayey gravel.... (^White clayey gravel - Marly sand ... ... .<. White porous sand ... Marly sand, slightly clayey 1 Marly sand Dai’k marly sand. Iron-stained j „ flints at the base. Vein of water j f Chalk with many flints (white and ; soft) ... j Chalk with interspersed flints, 1 harder and yellow ... | Chalk with few flints, soft and grey. I The sides fell in a good deal / Chalk without flints, hard ... \ Chalk, hard and yellowish ... Ft. 8? 7 ? 5? 10? 44 ? 269 78 44 31 7? Ft. 26 34 41 56 61 85 354 432 476 507 514 There is some difficulty in making out the drawing. No thicknesses are given for the beds above the Chalk or for the lowest bed of the Chalk, and the surface is vague. It seems hardly likely that there should be so much as 41 feet of River Drift, and one would nob expect the Blackheath Beds to rest on Thanet Sand here. Brompton, see Chatham. Brook. House about a quarter of a mile S. of W. of Church Ordn. Map 289, new ser. ; Geol. Map 3. About 160 feet above Ordnance Datum. Communicated by Mr. W. Terrill, Surveyor to the Ashford Urban Council, 1899, from information from Mr. Davis, Builder. A boring of 3 inches diameter, from which water overflowed. Alluvial soil. [Gault] Very hard blue clay, with fossils and metallic substances [? pyrites and phosphatic nodules] to 102 feet. Water struck in green sand. Boring-tool dropped 2 feet, and would have dropped further if allowed.$