... a considerablearea of gault clay. At WaverleyAbbeythereare records of twogreat floodsL On 5 Id. Jul. 1223 was another mighty flood which did prodigious mischief everywhere inthesouth of England, and more particularly here, where it demolished walls, carried away bridges, run through the abbey, and was within...

... of drains was reduced to a minimum, on the prin- ciple that any excess ofwork beyond what was sufficient to remove injurious wetness would be a waste of outlay. The gault clay, on the contrary, was drained uniformly by a parallel arrangement of drains 25 feetand 27 feet apart,and 4 feetdeep, at a cost...

...P W BARLOW © Thomas Telford and ICE 1855 WATER BEARING STRATA BASINS GEOLOGY CHALK WATER SUPPLY CLAYS ARTESIAN WELLS SPRINGS PERMEABILITY RAINFALL DISCHARGES RIVERS DRAINAGE SOLUBLE LIME QUICK LIME GREENSAND LONDON CLAY WEALD WEALD CLAY GAULT CLAY STRATIFICATION...