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Calvert Station is situated on the main line of the Great Central Railway, 49 miles by rail from London (Marylebone Station) by way of Aylesbury, and about 11 miles north-west of the latter town. ‘Calvert’ is not the name of any village or hamlet, but the station was so named in memory of a former distinguished resident in the neighbourhood, General Sir Harry Calvert. It will not be found, therefore, on any map issued prior to the opening of the railway; and, for the benefit of any observers who may seek to locate the borings about to be described upon the only published geological map of the district (the original 1-inch sheet, 45 S.E.), it may be stated that the station lies in the south-eastern angle of the T -shaped road-junction, about an eighth of an inch north of the second ‘n’ in ‘Charndon Lodge.’ The road—really a green lane—which forms the stem of the T constitutes the boundary between the parishes of Charndon on the west and Steeple Claydon on the east. One of the borings is in the former parish, one in the latter. Shortly after the opening of the railway in 1898, the late Mr. Itter, of Peterborough, opened a branch of his brickworks on the Charndon side of the green lane, and very extensive excavations have been made in the shaly clays of the ornatum zone. In 1905 a boring for water (hereinafter referred to as the Western Boring) was made in the brickfield; but only salt |
