Heazworth Brick works 1904
Heazworth Brick and Tile Works

Beaumont Vale, Haverhill

Haverhill Brickworks

Haverhill enjoyed at least six brickworks sites. These are grouped both to the east of the town and to the west. The Heazworth Brick Company had its works behind Beaumont Vale, owned by J Simpson 1896 to 1912.

It was located on a branch of the Colne Valley railway line, with its own spur line. This branch terminated at the Haverhill South Goods Station with an extension to the terminus at Duddery Hill cattle pens. The Colne Valley link to Halstead arrived in 1863. Pankhurst again was unable to give a map reference for this works. (The Great Eastern Railway to Cambridge and Sudbury arrived in 1865.)


Heasworth Brickworks close up
The Suffolk Heritage Explorer lists this Brickworks as monument record HVH 045, "Brickworks, Kilns, rail link and extraction pits marked on OS maps ...1880s, 1900s, and 1926".

Heasworth Brickworks site today

The area today

The Suffolk Heritage Explorer lists this Brickworks as monument record HVH 045, "Brickworks, Kilns, rail link and extraction pits marked on OS maps ...1880s, 1900s, and 1926".


Summary of the owners or managers

  • Started 18??
  • 1896 to 1912...J Simpson


This article was compiled by David Addy based upon material from "The British Brick Society" .

British Brick Society newsletter "Information No 26, April 2014,
Suffolk Heritage Explorer Reference BOT 016
Suffolk Review, Vol 5, 1980 - 1988 on ‘Suffolk Brickmaking’ by Robert Malster. (Suffolk Local History Council, Summer 1983, Vol 5, No 4).
Suffolk Industrial Archaeology Society newsletter No 21 to 23, 1988, "Brick Kilns in Suffolk" by C J Pankhurst
Website - David Kitching's website - Brick Section
Website - Martyn Fretwell's blog on bricks etc
Photos of bricks by Martyn Fretwell unless stated.

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