58 
W. WHITAKER-HERTEORDSHIRE WELL-SECTIONS. 
Hertford.— For the Corporation, 1884. Hade and commnnicated 
by Messrs. Legrane and Sutclife. 
Thickness. Depth. 
Gravel . 16 16 
Soft chalk and flints . 38 54 
Hard chalk and flints . 27 81 
An older well, for the Waterworks, is 18 feet to the Chalk 
(Messrs. Docwra). 
Hinxworth. —The Schools, N.W. of the Chnrch. Communicated 
by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne. Information from J. Conder, 
well-sinker, of Baldock. Hug 53 feet, the rest bored. 
Gravelly soil 
31 
Blue clay (Gault) to sand 180 J 
183 
All the wells in Hinxworth and at the coprolite-pits between 
Hinxworth and Astwick are about the same depth, not varying 
more than 5 feet, and always finding water in sand below the 
Gault. 
Hitchin. —Highover Farm, N.E. of the town, near the barn. In¬ 
formation given to Mr. Jukes-Browne by the foreman. 
Dug through clay and loam 
,, gravel to water 
16 
The same water-bearing gravel is intersected in the railway¬ 
cutting, into which water often runs. Another well was sunk in a 
field half a mile due east of the farm, and water found in similar 
gravel, below clay, about 40 yards from the road leading to 
Willbury Hill. 
Hunsdon Bury. —For Mr. J. H. Buxton, 1882. Made and commu¬ 
nicated by Messrs. Docwra. Shaft 56 feet, the rest bored. 
Water-level 106 feet down. 
Undescribed 
[Drift] 
Beading 
Beds. 
Chalk 
( Blue clay . 
Sand. 
Gravel . 
Blue clay . 
Sand .. 
Gravel . 
Loamy sand . 
( Dark sand 
Coloured [mottled] clay 
Sand. 
Coloured [mottled] clay 
Light[-coloured] sand 
Green sand . 
L Flints. 
Thickness. Depth. 
28* 
9 
1 
7 
15 
2 * 
li 
15 * 
1* 
8* 
10 
7 
A 
2 
59i 
39 
48 
49 
56 
71 
731 
i°2 
75 
79* 
95 
961 
105 
115 
122 
1221 
182" 
