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A brickyard or brickfield is a place or yard where 
Brickfield and Brickfields became common place names for former brickfields in south east England.
A brickyard or brickfield 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
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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 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, 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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