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THE WATER SUPPLY OF CIRENCESTER, 

 GLOUCESTERSHIRE 



BY 

 T. HIBBERT 



Surveyor to the Cirencester Urban District Council 



AND 

 L. RICHARDSON, P.R.S.E., A. Inst. W.E., P.G.S. 



{Read nth November, 1913) 



The greater portion of the town of Cirencester is situated 

 in a depression in the upland of the Cotteswold Hills. The 

 higher ground immediately to the east, north and west, is, 

 for the most part, capped with Forest Marble, beneath which 

 comes the Great Oolite. Below the Great Oolite is the Fullers' 

 Earth. 



The reason for the depression is faulting. As will be 

 seen on reference to the map given below (fig. i), a fault, 

 having a direction approximately from W. by N. to E. by S., 

 is situated to the south of the town. 



Fig. I. — Map of Cirencester and neighbourhood. 

 (Scale : i inch = i mile.) 



[It has not been found possible to indicate the extent of the Oxfordian and 

 Combrash in the neighbourhood of Lewis Lane]. 



