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During the year the village of Ruislip has been developing
considerably, plans for eight new houses having been passed.
Plans for fifty-nine new houses to be erected in Northwood
have been passed during the year, mostly for
houses of the better class.
The soil of the whole district is clay excepting in a few
spots where small patches of the Reading beds of gravel and
sand crop out. These patches of gravel are at the following
points.
i. At Ruislip village. 2. At Northwood Golf Course.
3. A small patch at Eastcote lying along the bed of the
River Pinn, from the iron bridge eastward for a few hundred
yards.
These gravel beds are of varying depths and overlie the
clay.
All the remainder of the district is London clay, stiff
brown clay with a thin coating of loam.
This clay holds up the ground water during wet weather
thus tending to make the atmosphere damp and causes ground
mists in Autumn and Winter.
It is very essential that sufficient surface drainage be
provided and that existing water courses and drains should
be kept open and free.
Houses built upon this clay are not necessarily unhealthy
provided that surface drains are put in and that good damp
courses and concrete foundations are used.
The levels of the land vary from 120 feet at the Southern
boundary to 360 feet at the Northern.
The River Pinn flows from east to west through the
centre of the District.