Monument record 0578500000 - NORBURY,PADBURY

1880 MAP MARKS 'BRICKFIELD'; 'KILNS' (X2); 'CLAYPIT', CENTRED AT NGR (BI1). DIRECTORIES 1853-76 'FOXLEY T, BRICK & TILEMAKER', 1883-7 'FOXLEY W BRICKMAKER'; 1891-9 'FOXLEY MR S R'; 1903-7 'FOXLEY F' (BI2-3). REMAINS OF CLAYPIT ON N EDGE OF SITE EVIDENT. NO STRUCTURES VISIBLE, THOUGH UNDERGROWTH IS DENSE(BI4) 'QUARRY' SHOWN ON 6IN OS 1ST EDITION (BUCKS SHEET 22, SURVEYED 1880); 6IN OS (SURVEYED 1930); 1:10,000 OS (SURVEYED 1984); GAZETTEER OF BUCKS BRICKYARDS (PIKE, A. 1980) [B5]

A post-medieval brick works is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located about 250 metres N of Wardens Farm and centred at SP 71221 29945, the irregularly shaped brick and tile making site covers an area about 21,671 square metres. The brick field is recorded on the 1880 dated 1st Edition OS map as comprising at that time two kilns as well as 2 buildings, probably processing sheds. It remains a brick field in 1899, but by 1923 it no longer seems to be an operational extraction site, when it is recorded as an ‘Old Clay Pit’. The buildings appear to have been demolished and the site covered in secondary woodland (6-10).