Monument record 0513400000 - SHREDDING GREEN, IVER

Summary

Seventeenth to eighteenth century brickworks known from historic records at Shredding Green

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Type and Period (1)

  • BRICKWORKS (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)

Description

Brickmaking mentioned in parish register 1657, established by 1725: Richard Bigg takes an apprentice. Kiln at Shredding Green, 1727 & leases Iver Heath site (CASS 05135), 1741 (B1).
Refs to brickmakers, mostly Bigg family, in registers (B2).
Same site as C19/C20 brickworks?, See 01:000.
One cleaver was found in the brickearth (B6).

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC16414 Bibliographic reference: W H Ward & K S Block. 1933. HISTORY OF THE MANOR & PARISH OF IVER PP182, 193. pp182,193.
  • <2>SBC8554 Unpublished document: Don and Dorothy Miller. 1982. LIST OF BRICKMAKERS ABSTRACTED F ROM IVER PARISH REGISTERS (FILED).
  • <3>SBC6948 Bibliographic reference: KELLY'S DIRECTORIES OF BUCKS 1887,1895-1911.
  • <4>SBC11958 Bibliographic reference: PIKE A R (SEE CASS 02395).
  • <5>SBC20218 Unpublished document: CMAG. 1980(?)-2001. Mineral Extraction Sites in Buckinghamshire.
  • <6>SBC22555 Unpublished document: Greater London Council. 1977. The Archaeology of the Colne Valley Park. Table 2.
  • <7>SBC25438 Bibliographic reference: Professor Russell Thomas. 2020. The Manufactured Gas Industry: Volume 3 Gazetteer.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02979 80299 (point)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jan 4 2024 10:08AM

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