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Description of the Malmeshury Water Worhs, ivith remarlcs on 



the Flow of Streams in the Cotteswold District, hy 



John H. Taunton, M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S. 



There may be some circumstances associated with the Water 

 service to the town of Malmesbury that will prove interesting 

 to the Cotteswold Club. 



The works were commenced towards the end of 1864. 



A manifest and apparently safe source of supply existed in 

 the Water Bearing Strata, found in or under the Forest Marble, 

 which develop the springs (of an Artesian character) that rise 

 in the Abbey meadows, below the town, constituting Feeders of 

 the river Avon. 



It was proposed to obtain this subteiTanean supply in the 

 manner indicated on the plan and section, the works being 

 carried on progressively, according to the quantity of water 

 needed — about 40 gallons per minute being aimed at in the 

 first instance. 



A length of 178 yards of Collecting Conduit, passing from the 

 Pump House at the foot of the Hollow-way, under the river Avon 

 to a well in the meadows on the north side of the river, was put 

 under contract on September 22nd, 1864, when the contractor 

 commenced operations. The excavations for the Trench, between 

 the Pump House and the river, were in Oohtic gravel, found 

 immediately below the surface soil and for a depth of 12 to 15 

 feet down. This gravel was charged with water, clear, bright. 



