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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 an open site where bricks are made. Place names are often formed from the word.
Brickfield, Brickfields or Brickfielder may specifically refer to:
Australia
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Brickfielder
The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in Southern Australia that develops in the country's deserts in late spring and summer, which heavily raises temperatures in the southeast coast.
Etymology
The term name was recorded in early 19th century, ...
, an arid wind
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Brickfield Hill
Brickfield Hill is a City of Sydney locality in inner city Sydney, Australia. The name was used for the surrounding settlement serving the colony's growing need for bricks, and today is part of the suburb of Surry Hills.
History
Brickfield Hill ...
, an area of Sydney
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Brickfields Hiring Depot
The Brickfields Hiring Depot was a building located in North Hobart on the site of the current North Hobart Oval. It was completed by the Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly kno ...
, a historic building in North Hobart, Tasmania
United Kingdom
England
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Brickfields, Bletchley
Bletchley and Fenny Stratford is a civil parish with a town council, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It was formed in 2001 from the unparished area of Milton Keynes, and according to the 2011 census had a population of 15,313. Toget ...
, an area in Buckinghamshire
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Brickfields, Worcestershire,
an English location
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The Brickfields
Brickfields Recreation Ground is a sports stadium and multi-sport complex in Devonport, Plymouth, England. It is run by EveryoneActive on behalf of Plymouth City Council, and is the home ground of Rugby Union team Plymouth Albion of the Natio ...
, a sports complex in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon
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Brickfield and Long Meadow
Brickfield and Long Meadow is a 3.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Earls Colne in Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, ...
, a nature reserve in Earls Colne, Essex
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Brickfields Meadow
Brickfields Meadow is a meadow in Woodside in the London Borough of Croydon. It is located on the former site of a brickworks in Tennison Road and Dickensons Lane. The meadow covers an area of about 4.37 hectares.
The meadow is not very well ...
, South Norwood, Croydon
Wales
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Brickfields Pond A brickfield is an open site where bricks are made. Place names are often formed from the word.
Brickfield, Brickfields or Brickfielder may specifically refer to:
Australia
*Brickfielder, an arid wind
* Brickfield Hill, an area of Sydney
*Brickfie ...
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a Welsh lake and nature reserve in Rhyl, Denbighshire
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Brickfield Rangers F.C.
Brickfield Rangers F.C. is a Welsh football club based in Wrexham. They play in the Ardal Leagues North West, which is in the third tier of the Welsh football league system.
History
The club joined Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) in 1994, ...
, a football club in Wrexham
Elsewhere
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Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur
Brickfields is a neighbourhood (as well as an administrative zone) located on the western flank central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is known as Kuala Lumpur's Little India (location), Little India due to the high percentage of Malaysian Indian, ...
, a neighbourhood in Malaysia
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Brickfield Town
Sandymount () is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. (now Sandymount), Dublin, Ireland
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Brickfield, Trinidad and Tobago, a beach in
Couva
Couva is an urban town (48,858 in 2011 census) in west-central Trinidad, south of Port of Spain and Chaguanas and north of San Fernando and Point Fortin. It is the capital and main urban centre of Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo, and the Greate ...
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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 ...
, a factory for manufacturing bricks
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Brickyard
A brickyard or brickfield is a place or yard where bricks are made, fired, and stored, or sometimes sold or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay or on o ...
, a place where bricks are made
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