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SOME ESSEX WELL-SECTIONS. 



Grays. — Lodge Farm, N.N.E. of the town, made to prove the 



strata. 1891. 



Communicated by Mr. W. H. Radford. 



The water in the old well here (disused, 87 feet above Ordnance 

 Datum) stands at i2'i2 above O.D. 



Thickness. 



Soil 3 



Gravel and sand 10 



r-ru .^ c JH i Fine yellow sand 12 



Ihanetband. \ ■,. ^ ,., , 

 '- -^ I \ ery nne white sand 22 



Chalk ; 30 



Depth. 



3 



13 



25 

 47 

 77 



Great Chesterford. — Park Road. 1890. 



Made and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold. 



Shaft 162 feet, the rest bored. 



Water-level 156 feet down at first; but lowered 5^ feet from 

 April 15 to July 23. The well having gone dry since, will have to 

 be deepened. 



Made ground 2 1 



Boulder Clay 8 v 192 



Chalk : 182 I 



Halstead.— 1878. 



Made and communicated by Messrs Tilley. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Brown clay and stones 15 ... 15 



Blue clay 13 ... 28 



Dark sand and water 2\ ... 30^ 



Yellow loam and little water 6 ... 36^ 



Light loamy dry sand 9 ... 45.2 



Coarse gravel and sharp sand 2.J ... 48 



Yellow dry sand 10 ... 58 



Yellow sand and water 10.^ ... 68.J 



Harlow. — Kingsmoor House {Mr. J. Todhunier). 

 Made and communicated by Messrs. A. Williams and Co. 

 Water-level 50 feet down. 



Thickness 



f Clay and stone 10 . 



I Clay and sand 16 



"j While sand and clay 24 . 



I Gravel 16 . 



[Drift.] 



Depth. 



10 

 . 26 



• 50 

 . 66 



1889. 



Hatfield Broad Oak. — Half a mile S.E. of the church. 

 Made and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold. 



Shaft 66 feet, the rest bored. 



Thickness. Depth. 



Brown clay 15 ... 15 



[Boulder Cla}^] >j Blue and brown clay 5 ... 20 



Blue clay 61 ... 81 



