Napton Brick and Tile Works
Aerial view of Napton Brickworks site, Napton on the Hill
Warwickshire County Council
Workers in a clay pit, part of Napton Brickworks, Napton on the Hill
Warwickshire County Council
Napton Brickworks, Napton on the Hill
Warwickshire County Council
Napton Brickworks, Napton on the Hill
Warwickshire County Council
Description of this historic site
The site of Napton Brickworks which are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. They date from the Imperial period through to Modern times, closing down in the 1970s. They were located between the Oxford Canal and the Napton Windmill.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Originally owned by a firm called ?Alloy Bricks. The kilns were originally coal-fired, the coal coming by canal; c1963 they installed oil-fired German machinery including a linear kiln and linear drying oven. Clay was taken from the slope at the back of the works. After several years the firm went bankrupt, but was run under new management until finally closing c1973. Items including a stationary steam engine were auctioned in 1976.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
The last owners of Napton Brickworks was the Allied Brick & Tile Works, of whose bricks can still be seen littering the site.
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