Various Woolpit brickworks c1886
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Kiln Lane Brick Works at WoolpitThe third of four Woolpit works
Four Woolpit Brickworks
Four brickmaking sites are known in Woolpit:
- Kiln Farm Brick Kilns, operative from 1819 to 1948;
- a brickworks known variously as New Kiln or Crossways Brickworks/Brickyard, records for which show use between 1783 and 1939;
- a brickworks at Kiln Lane in use between 1844 and 1916;
- Old Kiln, Kiln Lane, first recorded in 1573 and in use until at least 1892.
Kiln Lane Brickworks
This is the third of the four Woolpit brickworks. It began in 1844 and was working until it closed in 1916.
As the parish boundary runs along Kiln Lane, this brickworks on the north side of the lane is technically in Elmswell parish.
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