Various Woolpit brickworks c1886
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The Old Kiln Brick Works at WoolpitThe least known 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.
The Old Kiln Brickworks
This is the least known of the Woolpit brickworks as it was first recorded in 1573, and remained in use until 1892. It may well have changed locations over the years as the clay became exhausted in any one place. The 1886 map shows a number of old clay pits, and scattered kiln remains.
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