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A brickyard or 
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England.
A brickyard or brickfield
A brickfield is a field or other open site where bricks are made. Land may be leased by an owner to a brickmaster, by whom the manufacture of bricks may be conducted.
Historically, the topsoil was typically removed and the clay beneath was str ...
is a place or yard where brick
A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured cons ...
s are made, fired, and stored, or sometimes sold
Sold may refer to:
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or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4).
Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay par ...
or on or near a construction site if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England.
See also
*Brickworks
A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for cl ...
, another type of place where bricks are made, often on a larger scale, and with mechanization
* Clay pit
A clay pit is a quarry or mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits.
A brickyard or brickworks is of ...
, a quarry or mine for clay
* Kiln, the type of high heat oven that bricks are baked in
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