Brick/Tile Works off Monks Kirby Lane

Description of this historic site

The site of a brickworks where bricks were made during the Imperial period. The brickworks is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 and remains of the site are visible as an earthwork. It was situated 1km north of Monks Kirby.

Notes about this historic site

1 ‘Brick works’ and kiln marked.
2 Two modern cottages stand on the site, but the quite massive escarpment from the surface-worked quarry exists to the rear of them.

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