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PHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES.
The surface generally is gently undulating. Flatter in
the southern and more thickly inhabited portion, but rising
to a higher elevation in the more northern parts. Ilford is
situated on the London Clay, but this only comes to the surface
as a narrow strip running almost due East and West
through the middle of the district. In addition, there is a
large patch to the North-West, as exemplified in the names
Clayhall and Claybury.
There is a large square urea of brick-earth lying roughly
in the angle between the junction of the Romford load with
the 11 ford Lane, extending down the Romford road nearly as
as far as St. Mary's Church, and down Ilford Lane nearly to
Uphall Farm
The rest of the subsoil is gravel.