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Shire Oaks Colliery, Worksop. 



1. Shire Oaks Colliery, Worksop. 3. 3 shafts, 12 ft. diameter. 



•^ Galls. Depth. 



I Yellow limestone 400 17 yds. 



5. Water per hour.. -^ White „ 350 25 „ 



(Dark „ 60 38 „ 



9. Permian marls and magnesian limestones ; the principal feeder of water occurs 

 in a soft coarse sandstone lying on the bottom of the magnesian limestone. 



Papplewick Colliery, through Mr. W. F. Webb, of Newstead Abbey. 

 1. Papplewick, near Annesley. 3. 335 yards shaft. 5. At 3 yds. a little wafer, 

 at 44 yds. 7 in. 18 galls, per minute tubbed out, at 60 yds. 50 galls. ; below this 

 only an increase of 5 or 6 galls. 9. Drift. 



Magnesian limestone at 



Black shale (coal-measures) „ 



First coal „ 



Plant impressions » 



13. At 126 yds. 2 ft. a small salt spring, 3 galls, per minute. 



Mr. Ptobert Stevenson, through Mr. W. F. Webb, of Newstead Abbey. 

 1. Newstead Colliery. 3. Bore-hole at Colliery gives off 25-44 galls, of water 

 per minute. New Eed Sandstone, near outcrop of the formation. 



Mr. W. F. Webb, Newstead Abbey. 



1, Blidworth. yds. 



3. Depth of well at the Hut 42 



„ „ Gurnall's 3 



„ Needham's 6 ^ ^^^^^ fragments 



„ Forsters 1. { and gravel. 



„ Town-pump well o | ° 



School well 6 J 



Well at C. Clarkes' 50 



Waters' 40 



,, Hutchinson's .... 40 



„ „ Wilson's 39 



„ „ Herbert's 6 , j^ Sandstone. 



Town well 30 f 



Well at Flairs 30 



G. Johnson's 27 



Dixon's 26 







In clay, with lime- 



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„ „ Mount Pleasant . . 31 



, Cresswell's 28 



New Lane 31 



jj . j,, Lucas Cross Lane . . 34 



J, , , Blidworth Bottom . . 8 



,, „ Long Dale 26 



„ Wells at Fishpool 6-25 



9. Drift-gravel and clay ; red sandstone ; the water occurs immediately after 

 passing through a seam of conglomerate 3 inches thick. At Fishpool is a spring, 

 which, after 20 years' cessation, commenced running during the dry summer of 1808, 

 and then stopped, but recommenced in the summer of 1874. 10, Yes, which supply 

 the shallower of the above wells. 



Name of Member of Committee asking for information, W. Whitaker. 

 Name of Individual or Company applied to : — 



Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks, Hanley. 

 1. North Staffordshire, 4 miles S.E. from railway-station, Stoke-upon-Trent (1 in 



