Ellington soils are moderately well drained. Manchester soils are sandy-skeletal. Penwood soils lack a cambic horizon and have less than 16 percent rock fragments throughout. Raypol, Raynham, and Walpole soils are poorly drained and are in low areas. Surface runoff is slow to medium.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
Common crops are silage corn, vegetables, tobacco, and nursery stock. Some areas are wooded or used for community development. Common trees are white, red, black, and scarlet oak, gray birch, and white pine. The series is of moderate extent. Connecticut Valley Survey, 1899.