Site of brickworks at Fenny Compton

Description of this historic site

Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of a brick kiln where bricks were made during the Imperial period. The location is 1.5km north east of Fenny Compton.

Notes about this historic site

1 Brick kiln marked on Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map of 1886. The kiln is located in a field called Brick Field on the same map.
2 The brick kiln was built between 1866-69 and used until the end of the First World War (1919).

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