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line with Egerton Drive, across Blackheath Road to tlie Borough
boundary, thence also following that boundary along the Deptford
Creek to the point where the boundary leaves that water, whence the
line of alluvial deposits follows roughly the contour of the River
Bank, at a distance of about one hundred and fifty yards. The
remainder of the district of St. Nicholas, not included in the above
delineation, is on gravel and sand.
The gravel and sand commences eastwards at a point on the
delimiting line of the alluvium, on the north side of the Woolwich
Road, about two hundred yards westerly of Anchor and Hope Lane;
thence, for its northern margin, it follows the southern delimiting
line of the alluvium to Pelton Road, whence to Greenwich Pier
the gravel reaches along the River Bank itself, thence again following
this line right up to the boundary of the Borough of Lewisham;
for the southern delimiting lino of the gravel we pass from the point
where the gravel begins on the east almost immediately over
Woolwich Road, in a direct line to the Westcombe Park Station,
thence following fairly closely the line of the Southern Railway
until Vanbrugh Hill is reached, whence it passes to the south side
of that Railway and continues in almost a direct line to the old
Greenwich Park Station premises thence following on to the old
Blackheath Hill Station to join the northern delimiting line near
the Borough boundary.
A geological fault occurs in the gravel bed and extends in a
line running almost centrally through the whole bed as it exists
in this Borough, a somewhat narrow strip of chalk is found running
almost parallel to the Southern Railway, commencing where that
line enters the eastern boundary of the Borough and extending
in area for about two hundred yards to the north and south of that
line, stopping at a point about four hundred yards west of Westcombe
Park Station.
A small area of chalk is found again on Blackheath Hill,
extending about five hundred yards north and south of old Blackheath
Hill Station premises and for two hundred yards east of same.
A small pocket of chalk is also found on the Southern Railway line
just east of Vanbrugh Hill.
The lower London tertiaries are found throughout practically
the whole of the remaining portion of Charlton, extending westward
along the southern delimiting line of the chalk and gravel passing
along the southern boundary of the Borough, across Blackheath to
Blackheath Village and Lee Green, thence roughly from Weigall
Road to the eastern end of Blackheath Park, thence to Charlton
Park Lane and along same to the Borough boundary.
London Clay is found throughout the remainder of Kidbrooke.