Brickyard field names, Cryfield Grange
Description of this historic site
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a brickworks dating from the Imperial period. The works were situated in the area of Cryfield Grange.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A mapbook of 1766 gives the names of these two fields as “The Brickyard Close” and “Close at the Brickyard”.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Whites 1874 directory of Warwickshire lists as living in Stoneleigh George Sparrow, manager of Lord Leigh’s brick, tile, and drainpipe works Westwood Brickworks. That would be I assume Westwood Heath, which is in the region of Cryfield Grange.
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