Monument record 0579300000 - S of Natural Gas Reception Centre: brickworks

Summary

Former site of the London Brick Company from historical records. The original site consisting of brickfield, two kilns, and two clay pits dating back to the early nineteenth century

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Type and Period (3)

BRICKWORKS (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1945 AD)
TILE WORKS (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1945 AD)
CLAY PIT (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1930 AD?)

Description

1881 map marks brickfield; kilns (x2); claypit (x2); centred at NGR (1).
Directories 1847: Eitter, Wm; 1883: Gilkes, G; 1887-1915: Read, C, J T/Read & Andrews; 1920-31 Bletchley Brick Co; 1935-39 London Brick Co (2, 3, 4).
Original site of works at SP 8486 3221. In the 1930s the new works erected on opposite side of the road to old works at SP 8510 3230. In 1975 the works made 4.25 million bricks a week, employing 375 men. Original site now allotments/lakes (5).
Works closed in autumn 1990. Site’s future uncertain (7).
Of the original site, 1 wall of 1 of the kilns survives with bases of side walls. Remaining wall has 5 stoke holes visible. Of the later works, 2 chimneys and most of buildings remain (8)

Sources (10)

<1>SBC10279 Map: OS 1881 1:2500 MAP.
<2>SBC6998 Bibliographic reference: Kelly's Directories Ltd. KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF BUCKS 1847-1939.
<3>SBC661 Bibliographic reference: AUBREY & CO 1940 BEDS,BUCKS & OXFORDSHIRE DIRECTOR Y.
<4>SBC15133 Bibliographic reference: TOWN & COUNTRY DIRECTORIES LTD 1948-1949 BUCKS...T RADES DIRECTORY.
<5>SBC8193 Bibliographic reference: MARKHAM SIR F 1975 A HISTORY OF MILTON KEYNES & DI STRICT 2 PP291-297.
<6>SBC10487 Map: OS 1984 1:10000 MAP.
<7>SBC12013 Verbal communication: PIKE A R DEC 1990.
<8>SBC12183 Unpublished document: PIKE A R (BCM) NOV 1991 FIELD VISIT.
<9>SBC20225 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1881. OS 1st edition 6in map: Sheet 15.
<10>SBC20218 Unpublished document: CMAG. 1980(?)-2001. Mineral Extraction Sites in Buckinghamshire. D0029.

Location

Grid reference	SP 8482 3217 (point)
Civil Parish	NEWTON LONGVILLE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire